Memory
Pierre Reverdy
Hardly a minute
                       And I've come back
From everything that passed by I've kept nothing
A point
           The widening sky
                                     And at the last minute
The lantern that goes past
              The step we hear
   Somebody stops among everyone walking
We let the world go
                              And what's in it
The lights dancing
                And the shadow stretching out
There's still space
               Looking ahead
A cage where a live animal leaps
Breast and arms were making the same gesture
A woman was laughing
               Throwing her head back
And the man who came mistook us
We weren't acquainted the three of us
And we already formed
                       A world of hope
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