Floflost

Non les Etats-Unis ne se résument pas à W, non les Etats-Unis ne se résument pas aux Big Macs, non les Etats-Unis ne se résument pas à tous les clichés qu'on peut entendre... Et à tous ceux qui disent que la culture américaine n'existe pas, je laisse Kerouac leur dire...

Our Desires

There is a wind that seeks the crevice
under my heart
the way insects file at night
beneath a doorway
Its edges are rough, it slits
the cords. It trips my steady breathing.
When it comes there is no one
I can trust.

It seems, at times, I have designed
too well this vision of you.
I cannot survive your eyes
when they are scarred with a need
for some lesser form of love.

I admit to this conceit.
And though you will not accept it
You love it nonetheless

It is just like you. Our desires
will always be kept sharp
by a kind of perversity. A need
to be each forever alone....

Its color is violet, like lips
that have been smashed by nights
or robbed of blood by lack of breath.
The wind I was speaking of does this.