Place
Hors-série 2 - septembre 2019 /
Special issue 2 - September 2019
Jan Baetens
MY LIFE TO LIVE
X.
10:15-10:30
MY LIFE TO LIVE IN THE MORNING
a Kleenex stained red
by lips a quick kiss
before after a white kiss
a white Kleenex then afterwards
the lip faking naiveté
( )
the sulkiness of a real kiss
one handkerchief too many
a Kleenex stained red
behind the plate glass the hand
the armoire slit the lip
( )
a cigarette and therefore
ash all round the silver
something set in rose gold
the favorite color of the cheeks
a Kleenex stained red
( )
undressed nude invisible
immobile seated fingers
which speak visibly agitated
the mouth which counts the time
that money doesn’t count
( )
yet this never stops
the text learned by heart the head
undressed nude invisible
the mouth as well never any
shot showing tits after that nothing
( )
to see with her cigarette
red silver clasp without lips
thin as a cigarette
the time which counts the mouth
undressed nude invisible
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