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solenn fresnay Sep 2012
Il la traîna de force jusqu’à sa chambre
Lui tira les cheveux et lui fracassa la cervelle plusieurs fois contre le carrelage froid du couloir
- Carrelage de couleur marron jaune -
Au passage une de ses dents du haut s’est cassée, pas grave, on dira lundi à l’école qu’elle a mangé des cailloux tout le week-end avec ses cousines
Ses cousines qui par ailleurs l’ont laissée toute l’après-midi sur le toit de la voiture familiale
Juste pour une histoire de garçon
Et puis après tout, tu as assez bien finie, tu aurais pu atterrir dans la porcherie
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Juste pour une histoire de choux de Bruxelles.

Maman ne m’a jamais dit comment on faisait l’amour
Mais maman tous les soirs me faisait l’amour
(Un cri)
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Chaque jour de la semaine maintenant je suis défoncée
TOTALEMENT DEFONCEE.

Mais ne t’inquiète pas, lui dit-il en la serrant encore plus fort, maman rentrera bientôt
Et la petite fille qui pleurait et pleurait
Sentant cette chose immonde venir s’écraser contre sa poitrine
Ne t’inquiète donc pas, maman rentera bientôt
Et la petite fille qui pleurait chaque minute encore plus
Sentant cette chose immonde se balader contre son tout petit corps
Maman rentrera bientôt ?
JE N’AVAIS QUE CINQ ANS.

Maman ne m’a jamais dit comment on faisait l’amour
Mais maman tous les soirs me faisait l’amour
(Un cri)
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Chaque jour de la semaine maintenant je suis défoncée
TOTALEMENT DEFONCEE.

Elle entra à l’hôpital une nuit d’hiver
Dans la voiture toute blanche il y avait de jolies lumières au-dessus de sa tête et puis aussi une jolie musique
Tout allait un peu vite mais les messieurs étaient si gentils
Et puis elle avait encore vomi un peu partout mais les infirmières étaient si belles et avaient les dents si blanches
Elle resta une dizaine de jours dans cette chambre rose bonbon, le bras accroché à un drôle de pied en acier caillé, sa gentille maman qui continuait chaque nuit à lui faire l’amour en cachette
Elle se souvient avoir failli mourir
Mais après tout, tu as assez bien fini, tu aurais pu atterrir dans la porcherie
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Juste pour une histoire de choux de Bruxelles.

Maman ne m’a jamais dit comment on faisait l’amour
Mais maman tous les soirs me faisait l’amour
(Un cri)
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Chaque jour de la semaine maintenant je suis défoncée
TOTALEMENT DEFONCEE.

A l’école elle faisait tout le temps pipi sur elle
Puis elle s’est mise à se raconter des histoires, juste pour atteindre plus facilement le paradis artificiel
C’était toujours mieux quand c’était maman
Enfin elle ne se rappelle plus très bien
Elle a tout mélangé
Dans sa tête tout s’est mélangé
Elle est très malheureuse encore aujourd’hui
Mais après tout, elle a assez bien fini, elle aurait pu atterrir dans la porcherie
Pour une simple histoire de choux de Bruxelles
Juste pour une histoire de choux de Bruxelles.
judy smith Nov 2016
Whether in Montreal, where she was born and raised, or in Delhi, where her award-winning brasserie sits, the stylish chef’s love for gastronomy has always run deep. She came to India to chase her passion about eight years ago, after leaving behind an engineering career and having trained at the esteemed ITHQ (Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec). In 2014, she introduced unusual combinations like oysters with charred onion petals, tamarind puree, and rose vinegar when she became the first Indian chef to be invited to host a solo dinner at the James Beard House in New York City. Also presented there was her very own coffee-table book called Eating Stories, packed with charming visuals, tales and recipes.

In pursuit of narratives

“I am studying Ayurveda so, at the moment, I’m inspired by the knowledge and intuition which comes with that, but otherwise I completely live for stories. Those of the people around me — of spices, design forms, music, traditions, history and anything else I feel connected to.”

Culinary muse

“I truly believe that nature is perfect, so I feel privileged to use the ingredients that it provides, while adding my own hues, aromas and combinations…it feels like I get to play endlessly every day.”

After-work indulgence

“My favourite places to eat at are Cafe Lota and Carnatic Cafe in Delhi, and Betony and Brindle Room in NYC.”

Dream dish

“This salad I created called ‘secret garden’. It’s so beautiful to look at and has such a unique spectrum of flavours…all while using only the freshest, most natural produce to create something completely magical.”

Reception blooper

“Most people make the mistake of over-complicating the menu; having too much diversity and quantity. Wastefulness isn’t a good way to start a life together.”

A third-generation entrepreneur from a highly distinguished culinary family, she runs a thriving studio in Khar where state-of-the-art cooking stations and dining tables allow her to conduct a variety of workshops and sessions. Her grandfather is remembered as the man who migrated from Africa to London to found the brand that brought curry to the people of the UK — Patak’s. She took over as brand ambassador, having trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine and taught at one of Jamie Oliver’s schools in London. What’s more, Pathak is also the author of Secrets From My Indian Family Kitchen, a cookbook comprising 120 Indian recipes, published last year in the UK.

Most successful experiment

“When I was writing recipes for my cookbook, I had to test some more than once to ensure they were perfect and foolproof. One of my favourites was my slow-cooked tamarind-glazed pork. I must have trialled this recipe at least six times before publishing it, and after many tweaks I have got it to be truly sensational. It’s perfectly balanced with sweet and sour both.”

Future fantasy

“As strange as it sounds, I’d love to cater my own wedding. You want all your favourite recipes and you want to share this with your guests. I could hire a caterer to create my ideal menu, but I’d much prefer to finalise and finish all the dishes myself so that I’m supremely happy with the flavours I’m serving to my loved ones.”

Fresh elegance

“I’m in love with microgreens for entertaining and events…although not a new trend, they still carry the delicate wow factor and are wonderfully subtle when used well. I’m not into using foams and gels and much prefer to use ingredients that are fuss-free.”

This advertising professional first tested her one-of-a-kind amalgams at The Lil Flea, a popular local market in BKC, Mumbai. Her Indian fusion hot dogs, named Amar (vegetarian), Akbar (chicken) and Anthony (pork), sold out quickly and were a hit. Today, these ‘desi dogs’ are the signature at the affable home-chef-turned-businesswoman’s cafe-***-diner in Bandra, alongside juicy burgers, a fantastic indigenous crème brûlée, and an exciting range of drinks and Sikkim-sourced teas.

Loving the journey

“The best part of the job is the people I meet; the joy I get to see on their faces as they take the first bite. The fact that this is across all ages and social or cultural backgrounds makes it even better. Also, I can indulge a whim — whether it is about the menu or what I can do for a guest — without having to ask anyone. On the flip side, I have no one to blame but myself if the decision goes wrong. And, of course, I can’t apply for leave!”

Go-to comfort meal

“A well-made Bengali khichri or a good light meat curry with super-soft chapattis.”

What’s ‘happening’

“This is a very exciting time in food and entertaining — the traditional and ultra-modern are moving forward together. Farm-to-fork is very big; food is also more cross-cultural, and there is a huge effort to make your guest feel special. Plus, ‘Instagram friendly’ has become key…if it’s not on Instagram, it never happened! But essentially, a party works when everyone is comfortable and happy.”

A word to brides

“Let others plan your menu. You relax and look gorgeous!”

This Le Cordon Bleu graduate really knows her way around aromas that warm the heart. On returning to Mumbai from London, she began to experiment with making small-batch ice creams for family and friends. Now she churns out those ‘cheeky’ creations from a tiny kitchen in Bandra, where customers must ring a bell to get a taste of dark chocolate with Italian truffle oil, salted caramel, milk chocolate and bacon and her signature (a must-try) — blue cheese and honey.

The extra mile

“I’ll never forget the time I created three massive croquembouche towers (choux buns filled with assorted flavours of pastry cream, held together with caramel) for a wedding, and had to deliver them to Thane!”

Menu vision

“For a wedding, I would want to serve something light and fresh to start with, like seared scallops with fresh oysters and uni (sea urchin). For mains, I would serve something hearty and warm — roast duck and foie gras in a red wine jus. Dessert would be individual mini croquembouche!”

Having been raised by big-time foodie parents, the strongest motivation for their decision to take to this path came from their mother, who had two much-loved restaurants of her own while the sisters were growing up — Vandana in Mahim and Bandra Fest on Carter Road. Following the success of the first MeSoHappi in Khar, Mumbai, the duo known for wholesome cooking opened another outlet of the quirky gastro-bar adjoining The Captain’s Table — one of the city’s favourite seafood haunts — in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Chef’s own

AA: “We were the pioneers of the South African bunny chow in Mumbai and, even now, it remains one of my all-time favourites.”

On wedding catering

PA: “The most memorable for me will always be Aarathi’s high-tea bridal shower. I planned a floral-themed sundowner at our home in Cumballa Hill; curtains of jasmine, rose-and-wisteria lanterns and marigold scallops engulfed the space. We served exotic teas, alcoholic popsicles of sangria and mojito, and dishes like seafood pani puri shots and Greek spanakopita with beetroot dip, while each table had bite-sized desserts like mango and butter cream tarts and rose panna cotta.”Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses-2016 | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
Mateuš Conrad Aug 2022
i've started to absolutely loath these shifts at Oxford...
for one: compared we're talking about a league one side...
the ****** stadium is one thing
but... just the drive there: and back...
out of the house from 1pm until 12:30am...
and for what? there's that coughing up for fuel
which has increased from £10 to £15... hell: my pay
hasn't risen...
   on topic: i was talking with my father about this...
inflation... the prices of commodities increases,
but the wages do not...
    fair enough: i might seem gullible at times...
given my grandfather was a member of the communist
party... but then communism in Poland
(a satellite state) wasn't the same as it was
in the actual Soviet Union... i'm no romantic of communism...
but surely if there's a concept of inflation:
there ought to be a logic around a concept of deflation...
but there isn't one in economics,
i.e. when wages go up: but the price of commodities
stays the same...
yet... the work of dairy farmers is the same: quality
and quantity-wise... economics it not my strong point...
i'm just thinking out-loud...
and i like thinking-dumb...
              my recent fascination comes in the form
of Confucius < Mozi < Mencius < Zhuangzi | Huizi
i.e. Kong Qui < Mo Di < Meng Ke < Zhu7ang Zhou |Hui ****...

i leave the house for roughly 10 hours and bring
back about £35... sure... it's the easiest shift on my list...
i get paid £35 to watch a football match...
but? today... the sky above Oxford looked more
entertaining than the football match... so? for the majority
of the time while the sun was still clinging
to reign over the sky: i was just looking at very pretty
clouds in the distance... i sometimes can't stomach
these base human foundations for society:
entertainment... i'd rather drink a bottle of wine
and just watch clouds behave like sloths...
or... perhaps not sloths... more like when a jellyfish
****** a cauliflower....

at least there was banter with my "manager"
en route toward Oxford... i ate a McDonald's in the alley
while waiting for him to pick me up...
banter... oh right: code words...
we call them the PLATOON... there's about 40 or so
"banana boat" folk... Daniel is the guy who conjured
up the expression: black don't crack...
what does that mean? you can't tell a black person's
real age... since you can be looking at a black
person who's 50... and you'd guess their age
to be 30... black don't crack...
i really think cosmetic industries should look into
the genome of both black people and people
with downs syndrome: those ******* hardly age...
you can't tell if there's a wrinkle on them...
seriously!
                  white boy humour... white boy
British humour... i'm writing this in complete earnest...
it's not even a joke: well... it's funny in a conversation
when you can crack jokes without a CCTV crow
on your shoulder...
so we cracked jokes about the PLATOON...

Daniel played that famous video of the ventriloquist
with that Ahmed the dead suicide bomber
puppet: I **** YOU...
i laughed on the verge of tears...
it's almost like that Dave Chapel sketch about
uniforms: a woman all tarts and no choux pastry
stuff... and Dave's like: pretending to be a police officer:
excuse me, ma'am... i may be dressed as a police officer!
but it doesn't mean that i am, a police officer!
or Team American's Durka Durka: Muhammad Jihad...
i just said to Daniel: are any of these ***** from
Rotherham? where? oh you know...
that Rotherham grooming gang scandal...
i'd love to get my hands on one of those *****...

a former prisoner officer talking to a former
chemistry student... seriously... those organic chemistry
schematics of electron migration were a bit pointless:
until i realised: they showed me loopholes in
the language... call it the rearrangement of vowels
and consonants... absolutely ridiculous:
since all theory and very little practice...

oh sure... the PLATOON was there...
i started it calling it SLOW-IQ from cousin-*******...
which is true... you have to start calling out
taboos at some point...
i mean: these guys were slow...
Ha-HMED! hark the H... draw a longer breath
and forget that the R was ever associated with a trill
of a rattlesnake...
oh sure... we get sold that puny story-detail
of low testosterone levels in European men....
these days? i was signing them in...
i had to ask 2 or 3 times for them to repeat their names:
they spoke their names so delicately
i couldn't understand them...
and i'm the one who picks up sounds...
my auditory hallucinations sometimes speak louder
than these people, "these people"...

i checked up on some theory...
the length ratio of the index finger to the ring finger...
i look at my left hand... then at my right hand...
oh **** me... no wonder...
i'm a *******... a promiscuous *******...
my ring finger is much longer than my index finger:
much longer on my left hand than my right hand...
ergo? a shorter index finger implies higher levels
of testosterone...
   am i to be, now, what? self-congratulatory...
no... it's intrinsic ontology: i can't help what i am...
just like i can't help with being a raw-red Caucasian
in mentality that's deviant from the British-compact
model...

i cleaned the house in the morning really focusing
on repeating the song My Friends by
the Red Hot Chilli Peppers...
hey... listen... if these ******* have the audacity to
march in with their mosques... blow themselves up for
no grand attaching reason to further each and every one
of our plights: again... life isn't that terrible...
reality isn't unshakeable: unmoveable...
only people unto people make this life difficult:
usually out of complacency... laziness...
a solipsism that doesn't begin to factor in a fact
that solipsism could be a theory: a testing ground
of understanding autism...

but i abhor these Oxford shifts...
i leave them spent... the egress is magic though...
i'm more time-wasting than time-investing...
i still don't understand how inflation works
and i still don't understand why deflation doesn't exist...
the worth of goods increases:
but the method of producing these goods stays
the same... i have to admit...
i'm thinking about going out of my comfort zone...
looking into the thinking of economists
and not philosophers...
after all, my name was once allocated
to one famous tax-collector...
                     mind you: i like thinking about money...
not that i have a stash of it...
just enough to enjoy thinking about it...
i like thinking about money because i don't think
about spending it like most people do:
like most people who spend it frivolously and therefore
don't have enough of it and therefore
are in debt: these people are in debt because
they spend money on credit...
i have money, because i spend money on debit...

i couldn't never allow myself to accept a credit based
system of expenditures...
it made no sense to me: sure, you have more protection
using a credit card than a debit card...
after all the current system focuses more on creditors
than it does on debtors... then again: like for like...
you need less creditors than debtors:
you actually require more people in debt than
those willing to provide credit...
but then there are people like me who hyper-focus
on an earning-spending dynamic who
avoid building up too much credit:
by not building too much credit...
you can't exactly build up your... "debit score rating":
there's no "debit score" rating...
money turns into water...
you behave like your wallet if a dam...
that's a "metaphor" for savings and expenditure...

it's impossible for me to spend on credit...
why? i can't earn on credit:
well... i can earn on credit of my performance:
but that's a different sort of credit:
it's a credit i earn... rather than spend...
but i spend exclusively on debit...
on the basis of a debt i'm owned for my work...
i like money...
in philosophy there's that scared word: THING...
and NOTHING...
in economics there's that word too: MONEY...
and NO-MONEY...
oddly enough nothing is a categorised as a pronoun
while thing is categorised as a noun...
ergo? money is a noun and no-money
is a pronoun...

                    it's not even about being poor...
broke-***... it's about having enough money to do...
whatever the hell you want...
without a co-dependant... no woman: no children...
i can ******* from a shift... ask to be dropped
off at a petrol station... rather than the usual pick-up
spot... buy a £3 platter of sushi...
three ciders... a 10 packet of cigarettes...
eat... smoke a cigarette... then take at least two
bottles of cider dancing into the night...
i used to love swimming... now? if it's not cycling
it's walking... esp. come the night...

there's nothing quiet like it...
i hate these Oxford shifts... if it wasn't for the humour
i don't think i would have ever bothered...
focus on perception...
it's all about the TILT of the EARTH...
from the winter months and the summer months...
i was admiring the night thinking about
just that... this one... constellation...
in the summer months she's up-close...
you can see her enlarged (yeah?
things in English are generally asexual...
but you can ascribe *** to them...
like in most sensible tongues of the European
continent, there can be a sense of
the masculine and the feminine in nouns...
there's no need for gender-neutral pronouns...
there can exist gender-provocative nouns...
constellations are feminine)

   right... so there's this one jaw-dropper
of a constellation...
it's massive in the summer-time...
can't miss it... what the naked eye can't miss:
the mind ought to write about...

you know the constellation i'm talking about:
during the summer months it's enlarged...
but during the winter months it's squeezed into
its compact representation:
it's the same ******* constellation...
but since the earth is tilted on its axis...
that tilt generates a "disparity" of vision...
it's microscopically viewed in the summer months
and macroscopically viewed in the winter
months... when you sometimes walk the night
streets... tilt your head left to right...
and watch a bonanza of frost settling on the pavement
like it might be the glitter of paparazzi's cameras
eventing a strobe light effect of frost
glitter paving your honoured walk back
to a cold bed where only you or perhaps a cat might
be sleeping in...

no... it's not the constellation of cancer:
it's the constellation of scorpio:

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­                   •
                      •
                          .
           ­                                  •

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that's most definitely a scorpion...
the tail... the torso... and the two pincers
extending...
but i'm not referring to the constellation
of scorpio... i'm refferering
to...the trapezium with a tail...

the big and little wheelbarrow constellation are
one and the same...


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                                                                ­            •
                                            •


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it just depends on how the earth tilts...
call it her the little and big wheelbarrow...
microscopic in the realm of summer:
macroscopic in the realm of winter...
not a rhombus with a tail?
and what about the constellation of
scorpio...

three days by: Jane's Addiction...
always with the bass guitar that gets me...
now admire the tilt of the earth as this one constellation
all the same moves in and out to to an even greater
focus... "flat earth" expert as myself
ought to know... knowing one's own geometrics of
not having the luxury of parodying
movements that
demand the rigours of traffic...
such is a man's luxury of trailing behind night...
trailing behind dreams:
behind dreaming...
such is this world: that affords me so much
luxury... so little mediocracy...
            
tonight i brought back an acorn...
no... i wish i brought back an albino mulberry...
then again: i wish i brought back an oak conker...
but i prefer acorns more...
those hatted pebbles... oak? chestnut...
a corn that's not corns... that's acorn?
conker then... no? a nut with thoughts of
pirate X-marks-the-spot-chests?!
etymological tested grounds of frequented nouns...
hammer... table... mosquito...
            sun and moon...
                        sun as a he and moon:
although however stressed asexually: will be a she
in Ing-Leash.
Broadsky Mar 2024
I was born in the summer and love watching the clouds move with the night time breeze
I am the youngest of four girls and when I was 13 my older sister left my eyebrows over tweezed
It was the night of my 8th grade dance and when I looked in the mirror she saw me freeze
13 years later and I laugh about how I was afraid I’d get teased

My favorite colors have always been red and green but over the years the shades of each color have risen or fallen in coolness and warmth
I have always tried to guess which direction I’m standing in with my internal compass, I always bet I’m facing north
I am learning to not run from my feelings of unrest but instead rush forth

I love when it’s snowed all day and the clouds finally pass and the moon illuminates the fields around me as I'm driven around fast
I'm in love with the idea of moving forward yet somedays I can feel the shattered somethings haunting me from my past

I love Marilyn Monroe
I love Lana Del Rey and Tina Snow
these women who have come before me, have similar scars to me that they aren't afraid to show
I love the feeling of being known
I love feeling as if I'm finally taking my rightful throne
I love this room my mind created everything hand etched and carved of marble stone

The curls in my hair sometimes come out to say hello
I've always wanted to learn how to make choux pastry dough
I love walking, anywhere and everywhere, it reminds me to take things slow

I like pickled radish
and the water of the bay that is brackish
I love when someone says "you're going to love it, try this"

I regret anytime I allowed someone to challenge the beauty and fire I hold in my eyes
and how I wonder why in the first place I even allowed them to try
I allowed them to convince me the strands of my hair didn't shine with such beauty it made the moon cry
I allowed them to drown out my colors with cheap black box dye
and tell me "I've never seen that before" as they point at my full and curvaceous thigh

I buried myself in the deepest dirt and hibernated
while everyone else above celebrated
how being away from me means they successfully evacuated
Their plan was beautifully and tragically orchestrated

I slept and I slept
through every season and even after all the leaves had been swept
I tried to hold onto anything that made me forget why everyone left
Then one day the sun made it's way down and through all the cracks and crevices, it crept
it crept til it woke me up from this comatose dormancy
"how long have I slept?'
the sun said "long enough"
and I wept

but as I wept the sun lifts my head and looks into my eyes
"you are whole and alive, These eyes have yet to see the wonders where my light shines, will you look up at the sky?" and as I look I see clouds the color of the painting above the floor in Versailles, I see every time I felt alive, I see every time I showed mercy and how many low spirits I was able to raise and revive. I see every time my presence has lovingly and unknowingly given someone the strength to survive.

"In time you will see how your depth and beauty goes farther than the bottom of the sea, you will hear my hello from every leaf and every tree and when the ground tickles your feet, be still and know I am with you and will never leave. You are who you are and I couldn't be more pleased, you are the same girl who at nine fell of her bike and scraped her knee, you are the same girl who at thirteen got her eyebrows over tweezed, I promise your garden will grow once you plant your seeds."

For a moment I couldn't breathe
I was in awe of the way the sun could see me
and how even though he sees everything from all sides he still felt this way, how could this be?

"Because you have fiery embers that glow within you, your flavor is more complex than the finest coffee maker could ever brew. Your presence is favorable, please stop allowing your point of view to get skewed."

I stare at my hands and remember how they looked when I was little and how I dreamt of a life where I'd smile so much you'd see my dimple, one where every day I'd be drenched in crystals, and maybe at this point I would have finally learned how to whistle... I haven't mastered the art of it yet, for me it's not that simple. But little me would be happy to know that now when she sings she sounds hymnal.

Little me would love to know that a beautiful cobalt blue journal bought by a friend would begin the journey of a love affair between me, some paper, and a pen.
Little me would stare at the thousands of words I've written about the deep feelings brought on by men
wounds from my father and boys I loved back then
she would walk up to me and she'd be so short I'd be able to rest my hands on her head
she'd squeeze me tight and sigh before saying "I love that we never leave anything unsaid."

And she's right
I have poured my heart out in the depths of the night
to the people with who I wanted to give a final goodbye
I know the rule of ignoring my heart is one I will always defy
This declaration of claiming my life back is one I will amplify

I have spoken my truth terrified even after drinking up all the courage I could liquify  
and albeit terrified I know I'm one of the lucky few who will stand up and speak first of how things are unjustified

I will stand and put my finger in the face of any angry man who tries belittling a woman and tearing her down as much as he can
I will fly over to shield her with my 7 foot wingspan
and put a stop to all of this before it even began

I will dance in the aisle at the grocery store and not care because they are playing a song I adore
I will sing with the fervor of a thousand voices and belt it from my very core
I will drench everything in love for when it rains it pours

Hi, my name is everything I have been and ever will be
my name is the first flight of every butterfly and every bee
my name is the feeling of when the person you love gets down on one knee
my name is the way a new born baby breathes

my name is the way flowers bloom
my name is the way you stand back and smile after you've just painted your very first room
my name is the way you feel when the fireworks on fourth of July go boom
my name is the way you felt when you were a kid wearing your favorite Halloween costume

my name is the way you feel when you've styled your hair just right
my name is the way you feel when it's the first time they ask you to spend the night
my name is the way you feel when your best friend hugs you tight

my name is the way you feel when you're happy and you've had just enough to drink
my name is the way you feel when the sky is that perfect shade of orange and pink
my name is the way you feel when you finally know what to say after having some time to think

my name is my own
and when I get older I'm going to buy a horse that's a blue roan
and ride her for miles
for I used to be out on that lonely road
and my soul will forever want to roam
and as I look at her mane to comb
it's full of beautifully ornate braids with flowers sewn
I look at her and see myself and I say
"You're finally home."
This is the first poem I've ever truly written about myself and I feel whole.
Who I am now is who I'm meant to be and I love her.
Ben Brinkburn Jan 2013
Don’t fail me now not before the bombs fall
words spoken then laughter in the restaurant
over Chablis and oysters, nerves of wool

Worry lines as a way of life across grimacing faces
pilot training as a suppressed experience, deep life,
steak for main maybe choux hearts for dessert

Destruction on the launch pad, the routine has been
impressed on the grid, the matrix of consciousness,
natural selection in the space of jostled neurons wondering

Whether there is any relief once in space, away
away, from this grid of streets, is it solid enough
to hold up our spirits high, untouched,

Blemish free draped in the flag, retro jet joy
and star drives invisible from the dark side of the moon,
food gulped down drink taken to salve the tongue

Burnt out hearts and molten faces set out on the grid,
falling from the skies like punctured Chinese lanterns.
Lyn-Purcell Aug 2018
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Amber-kissed choux pastry
Shells in the oven's womb
baked round, light, fluffy, hollow
Fattened with sweet cream
classic vanilla
Dust sugar powder
Prime!
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Eighth Epulaeryu! ^-^
I am on a roll!
Lyn ***
Lyn-Purcell Aug 2018
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Finger-shaped from choux pastry
Dark-gold, crisp, hollow
Smooth vanilla pastry cream
Pale-yellow, so rich
Fresh chocolate ganache
gently spread
Bite!
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Sixteenth Epulaeryu! ^-^
Freshly made eclair are the best!
As much as I love to explore different flavours, nothing bests the classics!
Who's with me!
Lyn ***
Fable V, Livre IV.


Don pourceau, lâché dans la plaine,
S'émancipait à travers choux,
Flairant, fouillant dans tous les trous,
Et, dans l'espoir de quelque aubaine,
Mettant tout sens dessus dessous.
Du fait sa noble espèce est assez coutumière.
Or donc, après avoir ravagé maint terrier,
Saccagé mainte fourmilière,
Ecrasé mainte taupinière,
Mon galant va dans un guêpier
Donner la tête la première.
Vous devinez comment il y fut accueilli.
En un clin d'œil son nez immonde,
Par la peuplade furibonde,
De toutes parts est assailli.
Malgré l'épais abri du lard qui l'environne,
Ce pauvre nez paya pour toute la personne,
Et fut par l'aiguillon chatouillé jusqu'au bout.
Étourdis, prenez-y donc garde !
Vous voyez que l'on se hasarde
À mettre ainsi le nez partout.
Olivia Kent May 2015
Playing the advocate.
Always standing up for you.
Defense, maybe greater at winning the war.
Never,if ever the bodies be broken.
Will we ever skip and play again.
You and I rode broken trains.
Now there ain't no going back.
Your wheels walked my way, you in your chair.
You whistled at me.
I didn't care.
Stopped me fast in my tracks.
You stopped me from passing, by blocking the path.

The two of us,  initially just game for a laugh.
Not joking.
You bought me Choux buns, filled up with cream.
You were never what you seemed.
Sold me sweetness.
Summer suns and floppy hats.
Puffy pastries.
Rather tasty.
Teacups full of coffee.

Walking on beaches.
Sand on my heels.
It's stuck in my hair.
God only knows how the hell it got there.
Emotion laid open, by you and your name.
Initially you and I thought it was a game.
Things will never be the same.

Bare as a child, newborn and warm.
Soon to be colder, as she's getting older.
You must know how it feels.

You stole my sun.
Clasped it in between your hands.
Time herself, well she stole summer.
Turned it into winter.
Splinter movement.
Stuck right in.
Spurned by a lover who once was stranger.
An orchestra of storms and stress.
Riding left over driftwood.
Through this God awful mess.

Once we were strangers.
Then we were friends.
Dear once upon a time stranger,
You came along and rearranged me.
And so the story ends.
(c)Livvi MMCV
Ainsi les plus abjects, les plus vils, les plus minces
Vont régner ! ce n'était pas assez des vrais princes
Qui de leur sceptre d'or insultent le ciel bleu,
Et sont rois et méchants par la grâce de Dieu !
Quoi ! tel gueux qui, pourvu d'un titre en bonne forme,
À pour toute splendeur sa bâtardise énorme,
Tel enfant du hasard, rebut des échafauds,
Dont le nom fut un vol et la naissance un faux,
Tel bohème pétri de ruse et d'arrogance,
Tel intrus entrera dans le sang de Bragance,
Dans la maison d'Autriche ou dans la maison d'Est,
Grâce à la fiction légale is pater est,
Criera : je suis Bourbon, ou : je suis Bonaparte,
Mettra cyniquement ses deux poings sur la carte,
Et dira : c'est à moi ! je suis le grand vainqueur !
Sans que les braves gens, sans que les gens de coeur
Rendent à Curtius ce monarque de cire !
Et, quand je dis : faquin ! l'écho répondra : sire !
Quoi ! ce royal croquant, ce maraud couronné,
Qui, d'un boulet de quatre à la cheville orné,
Devrait dans un ponton pourrir à fond de cale,
Cette altesse en ruolz, ce prince en chrysocale,
Se fait devant la France, horrible, ensanglanté,
Donner de l'empereur et de la majesté,
Il trousse sa moustache en croc et la caresse,
Sans que sous les soufflets sa face disparaisse,
Sans que, d'un coup de pied l'arrachant à Saint-Cloud,
On le jette au ruisseau, dût-on salir l'égout !

- Paix ! disent cent crétins. C'est fini. Chose faite.
Le Trois pour cent est Dieu, Mandrin est son prophète.
Il règne. Nous avons voté ! Vox populi. -
Oui, je comprends, l'opprobre est un fait accompli.
Mais qui donc a voté ? Mais qui donc tenait l'urne ?
Mais qui donc a vu clair dans ce scrutin nocturne ?
Où donc était la loi dans ce tour effronté ?
Où donc la nation ? Où donc la liberté ?
Ils ont voté !

Troupeau que la peur mène paître
Entre le sacristain et le garde champêtre
Vous qui, pleins de terreur. voyez, pour vous manger,
Pour manger vos maisons, vos bois, votre verger,
Vos meules de luzerne et vos pommes à cidre,
S'ouvrir tous les matins les mâchoires d'une hydre
Braves gens, qui croyez en vos foins, et mettez
De la religion dans vos propriétés ;
Âmes que l'argent touche et que l'or fait dévotes
Maires narquois, traînant vos paysans aux votes ;
Marguilliers aux regards vitreux ; curés camus
Hurlant à vos lutrins : Dæmonem laudamus ;
Sots, qui vous courroucez comme flambe une bûche ;
Marchands dont la balance incorrecte trébuche ;
Vieux bonshommes crochus, hiboux hommes d'état,
Qui déclarez, devant la fraude et l'attentat,
La tribune fatale et la presse funeste ;
Fats, qui, tout effrayés de l'esprit, cette peste,
Criez, quoique à l'abri de la contagion ;
Voltairiens, viveurs, fervente légion,
Saints gaillards, qui jetez dans la même gamelle
Dieu, l'orgie et la messe, et prenez pêle-mêle
La défense du ciel et la taille à Goton ;
Bons dos, qui vous courbez, adorant le bâton ;
Contemplateurs béats des gibets de l'Autriche
Gens de bourse effarés, qui trichez et qu'on triche ;
Invalides, lions transformés en toutous ;
Niais, pour qui cet homme est un sauveur ; vous tous
Qui vous ébahissez, bestiaux de Panurge,
Aux miracles que fait Cartouche thaumaturge ;
Noircisseurs de papier timbré, planteurs de choux,
Est-ce que vous croyez que la France, c'est vous,
Que vous êtes le peuple, et que jamais vous eûtes
Le droit de nous donner un maître, ô tas de brutes ?

Ce droit, sachez-le bien, chiens du berger Maupas,
Et la France et le peuple eux-mêmes ne l'ont pas.
L'altière Vérité jamais ne tombe en cendre.
La Liberté n'est pas une guenille à vendre,
Jetée au tas, pendue au clou chez un fripier.
Quand un peuple se laisse au piège estropier,
Le droit sacré, toujours à soi-même fidèle,
Dans chaque citoyen trouve une citadelle ;
On s'illustre en bravant un lâche conquérant,
Et le moindre du peuple en devient le plus grand.
Donc, trouvez du bonheur, ô plates créatures,
À vivre dans la fange et dans les pourritures,
Adorez ce fumier sous ce dais de brocart,
L'honnête homme recule et s'accoude à l'écart.
Dans la chute d'autrui je ne veux pas descendre.
L'honneur n'abdique point. Nul n'a droit de me prendre
Ma liberté, mon bien, mon ciel bleu, mon amour.
Tout l'univers aveugle est sans droit sur le jour.
Fût-on cent millions d'esclaves, je suis libre.
Ainsi parle Caton. Sur la Seine ou le Tibre,
Personne n'est tombé tant qu'un seul est debout.
Le vieux sang des aïeux qui s'indigne et qui bout,
La vertu, la fierté, la justice, l'histoire,
Toute une nation avec toute sa gloire
Vit dans le dernier front qui ne veut pas plier.
Pour soutenir le temple il suffit d'un pilier ;
Un français, c'est la France ; un romain contient Rome,
Et ce qui brise un peuple avorte aux pieds d'un homme.

Jersey, le 4 mai 1853.
Madame, on m'a dit l'autre jour
Que j'imitais... qui donc ? devine ;
Que j'imitais Musset : le tour
N'en est pas nouveau, j'imagine.

Musset a répondu pour nous :
« C'est imiter quelqu'un, que diantre !
Écrit-il, que planter des choux
En terre... ou des enfants... en ventre. »

Et craquez, corsets de satin !
Quant à moi, s'il me faut tout dire,
J'imite quelqu'un, c'est certain,
Quelqu'un du poétique empire.

Je m'élance sur son chemin
Avec la foi bénédictine ;
Cherchez dans tout le genre humain.
Eh ! bien... c'est elle, Valentine.

On ne peut copier son air,
Ses propos et son moindre geste,
Mais son cœur ! mais son esprit fier !
Je peux attendre pour le reste.

Ça me conduira qui sait où ?
Je crois être elle, ma parole !
Au lieu de dire : je suis fou,
L'autre jour j'ai dit : je suis folle !

Ma personnalité, ma foi !
S'est envolée ; et ceci même,
Mes vers sont d'elle et non de moi,
Si toutefois elle les aime ;

Ce serait par trop hasardeux
Que de mettre tout un volume
Sur son dos ; si nous sommes deux,
Je suis seul à tenir la plume !

Oh ! bien seul ! ne confondons pas,
Je suis parfaitement le maître ;
Car des fautes ou de faux pas
Elle ne saurait en commettre.

Vous voyez, c'est bien différent
De ce que racontait l'histoire.
Ah ! Si son verre était moins grand,
J'aurais voulu peut-être y boire...

Il est bien grand, en vérité !
Ne croyez pas que je badine ;
Je boirai donc à sa santé,
Dans le Verre de Valentine.
La Champagne est fort laide où je suis ; mais qu'importe,
J'ai de l'air, un peu d'herbe, une vigne à ma porte ;
D'ailleurs, je ne suis pas ici pour bien longtemps.
N'ayant pas mes petits près de moi, je prétends
Avoir droit à la fuite, et j'y songe à toute heure.
Et tous les jours je veux partir, et je demeure.
L'homme est ainsi. Parfois tout s'efface à mes yeux
Sous la mauvaise humeur du nuage ennuyeux ;
Il pleut ; triste pays. Moins de blé que d'ivraie.
Bientôt j'irai chercher la solitude vraie,
Où sont les fiers écueils, sombres, jamais vaincus,
La mer. En attendant, comme Horace à Fuscus,
Je t'envoie, ami cher, les paroles civiles
Que doit l'hôte des champs à l'habitant des villes ;
Tu songes au milieu des tumultes hagards ;
Et je salue avec toutes sortes d'égards,
Moi qui vois les fourmis, toi qui vois les pygmées.

Parce que vous avez la forge aux renommées,
Aux vacarmes, aux faits tapageurs et soudains,
Ne croyez pas qu'à Bray-sur-Marne, ô citadins,
On soit des paysans au point d'être des brutes ;
Non, on danse, on se cherche au bois, on fait des chutes ;
On s'aime ; on est toujours Estelle et Némorin ;
Simone et Gros Thomas sautent au tambourin ;
Et les grands vieux parents grondent quand le dimanche
Les filles vont tirer les garçons par la manche ;
Le presbytère est là qui garde le troupeau ;
Parfois j'entre à l'église et j'ôte mon chapeau
Quand monsieur le curé foudroie en pleine chaire
L'idylle d'un bouvier avec une vachère.
Mais je suis indulgent plus que lui le ciel bleu,
Diable ! et le doux. printemps, tout cela trouble un peu ;
Et les petits oiseaux, quel détestable exemple !
Le jeune mois de mai, c'est toujours le vieux temple
Où, doucement raillés par les merles siffleurs,
Les gens qui s'aiment vont s'adorer dans les fleurs ;
Jadis c'était Phyllis, aujourd'hui c'est Javotte,
Mais c'est toujours la femme au mois de mai dévote.
Moi, je suis spectateur, et je pardonne ; ayant
L'âme très débonnaire et l'air très effrayant ;
Car j'inquiète fort le village. On me nomme
Le sorcier; on m'évite ; ils disent : C'est un homme
Qu'on entend parler haut dans sa chambre, le soir.
Or on ne parle seul qu'avec quelqu'un de noir.
C'est pourquoi je fais peur. La maison que j'habite,
Grotte dont j'ai fait. choix pour être cénobite,
C'est l'auberge ; on y boit dans la salle d'en bas ;
Les filles du pays viennent, ôtent leurs bas,
Et salissent leurs pieds dans la mare voisine.
La soupe aux choux, c'est là toute notre cuisine ;
Un lit et quatre murs, c'est là tout mon logis.
Je vis ; les champs le soir sont largement rougis ;
L'espace est, le matin, confusément sonore ;
L'angélus se répand dans le ciel dès l'aurore,
Et j'ai le bercement des cloches en dormant.
Poésie : un roulier avec un jurement ;
Des poules becquetant un vieux mur en décombre ;
De lointains aboiements dialoguant dans l'ombre ;
Parfois un vol d'oiseaux sauvages émigrant.
C'est petit, car c'est laid, et le beau seul est grand.
Cette campagne où l'aube à regret semble naître,
M'offre à perte de, vue au **** sous ma fenêtre
Rien, la route, un sol âpre, usé, morne, inclément.
Quelques arbres sont là ; j'écoute vaguement
Les conversations du vent avec les branches ;
La plaine brune alterne avec les plaines blanches ;
Pas un coteau, des prés maigres, peu de gazon ;
Et j'ai pour tout plaisir de voir à l'horizon
Un groupe de toits bas d'où sort une fumée,
Le paysage étant plat comme Mérimée.
Murs blancs, toit rouge, c'est l'Auberge fraîche au bord

Du grand chemin poudreux où le pied brûle et saigne,

L'Auberge gaie avec le Bonheur pour enseigne.

Vin bleu, pain tendre, et pas besoin de passe-port.


Ici l'on fume, ici l'on chante, ici l'on dort.

L'hôte est un vieux soldat, et l'hôtesse, qui peigne

Et lave dix marmots roses et pleins de teigne,

Parle d'amour, de joie et d'aise, et n'a pas tort !


La salle au noir plafond de poutres, aux images

Violentes, Maleck Adel et les Rois Mages,

Vous accueille d'un bon parfum de soupe aux choux.


Entendez-vous ? C'est la marmite qu'accompagne

L'horloge du tic-tac allègre de son pouls.

Et la fenêtre s'ouvre au **** sur la campagne.

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