Par
Baudelaire
I
call it The Crown of Pain, as evil is not the same.
“Ca
fait mal,” on dit. “That is painful”, we say!
Altogether
more human, as you are, Your voice.
And
also, to hell with this ‘poète maudit’!
Such
viewpoints are simply dépassé.
And
another thing, just because you’re French
Doesn’t
mean you understand or even appreciate him!
I’ve
been translating him for years, and I still don’t know him.
I
detest such ideas of national appropriation.
It’s
the same here, naming flagships after writers…!
What
the fuck; Monsieur Beckett, mon beau navire!
I
take you with me in a leatherbound volume,
Almost
biblical in scope while others scroll on their iPhones,
I
am commuting with you, Charlie,… Baudelaire!
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