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I watch the clouds
Pleasant, the ribs and tendons of cloud
I've lost nothing
Pleasant alone, I watch the folding light
My animals are quiet, my heart never bangs
I read in the evenings, there is no one to tell me
What is expected or not expected of me
There is nothing required of me
I'm at my last gasp with this unendurable racket
I kicked open the door and stood before them
Someone called me granddad and told me to button it
If they should button it, were I young?
One of them told me I was lucky to be alive
But I would have to bear it in order to pay for being alive
In order to give thanks for being alive
It's a question of sleep, I need something of it
Or how can I remain alive without any true rest?
Having no solace, no constant solace
Not even any damn inconstant solace
I am strong but not as strong
As the bastards in the other room
And their tittering bitches and their music and their love
If I changed my life, perhaps
And lived deliberately at night and slept in the day
But what exactly would I do?
What can be meant by living in the dark?
Now and again, I meet my drinking companion
And have a drink with her
She is a friendly woman, quite elderly, quite friendly
But she knows little of me
She could never know much of me, not really, not now
She's funny, she starts talking sexily to me
In the corner with our drinks, I laugh
She asks me about my early life when I was young
Never departing from her chosen subject
But I have nothing to tell her
About the sexual part of my youth
"I'm old," I tell her, "my youth was somewhere else"
Anyway, I don't remember
She does the talking anyway
I like to get back to my room
It has a pleasant view
I have one or two friends, ladies
They ask me where I come from
I say, of course, "from the country"
I don't see much of them
I sometimes wonder if I think
I heard somewhere about
How many thoughts go through the brain of a person
But I couldn't remember anything I'd actually thought
For some time
It isn't something that anyone
Could ever tell me
Could ever reassure me about
Nobody could tell from looking at me
What was happening
But I'm still quite pretty, really
Quite nice eyes, nice skin
Will we meet tonight?
I don't know
Come with me tonight
Where?
Anywhere, for a walk
I don't want to walk
Why not?
I want to go somewhere else
Where?
I don't know
What's wrong with a walk?
I don't want to walk
What do you want to do?
I don't know
Do you want to go anywhere else?
Yes
Where?
I don't know
Do you want me to buy you a drink?
No
Come for a walk
No
All right, I'll take you on a bus to the town
I know a place, my cousin runs it
No