Oh you dear companions

Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers

Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets

Cavalry of bridges nights livid with alcohol

The cities I've seen lived like mad women

(The Voyager)

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: alcohol cities drunk city drunkeness



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Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes

The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon

That night when as summer waned I listened

To a languorous bird forever wroth

And the eternal noise of a river wide and dark

(The Voyager)

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: suburbia suburbs



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Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]

It's me

And who is the poet writing this poem?

That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: innocence childhood child poet marbles innocence-lost



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The City is free of sin

The snow has given it absolution

A man who slips
A horse that falls

Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: snow city



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...And we left the light
for the night of the street

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: night light street



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Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations

We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day

And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")

Pierre Albert-Birot

Tags: cities city trains train train-station electric-light



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