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Pierre Reverdy


    portrait by Pablo Picasso

 

late in life

June 7, 2011 § Leave a comment

I am callous
I am tender
And I have wasted my time
Dreaming without sleeping
Sleeping while walking
Everywhere I’ve gone
I’ve found myself absent
I belong nowhere
Except the void
But I carry hidden high up in my bowels
At the spot where lightning has too often struck
A heart where each word has left its mark
And where my life trickles away with the slightest movement

(from La liberté des mers)

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