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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