Les gens ne sont jamais prêts à répondre
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Jack Kerouac, "à Edward Dahlberg » (1970)
« Poèmes » , Seghers, 2002
The sun
winding the yellow bindweed about a
bush; worms and gnats, life under a stone.
The pitiful snake with its mosaic skin
and frantic tongue. The horse, the bull
the whole din of fracturing thought
as it falls tinnily to nothing upon the streets
and the absurd dignity of a locomotive
hauling freight —