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Shangaï-Hangzhou. | Shen, people said the most beautiful girls of China were in Hangzhou But no one's as pretty as you |
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My chinese name | Hao WÈn (How-When / O-wen) Linda chose it It means Great Knowledge Some people are gonna laugh |
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A fighters' bar | Arvo told us to be careful Chinese guys just wanted to toast with us Thanks for the advice Arvo |
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Hair in the eyes |
Hard to explain To a chinese barber What you really want Nevermind I'll be chinese bearded |
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Broken Arrow? | Time rushes like an arrow Will I hit the target? |
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Free people walk more straightfull | ||
????? To cabdriver xxxxx. Hangzhou China |
Thanks for not honking during our 23 yuan course You looked younger than me but I, I paid you |
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I miss coffee // Fire miss wood |
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To Nana |
You guided me in the dark Unknown first night. Your favorite muffins Don't taste so good For french people I'll remember Your japanese accent When you were speaking english In this hurry night To find coffee substitute |
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To the girl in the room 304 (Bernard's room), The 16th of january in the afternoon. You asked for my height To be a model for you Was that a way to pick me up? |
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Don't really know what you're searching for Thanks for buying us lunch anyway |
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Leo, | First french girl meet in here Didn't have a lot to say to her Didn't have a lot in common And Seychelles' guys didn't wanted to leave The reggae bar |
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You gave me an email Don't even know your name I'll send you the photo like you wanted |
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Kind of strange bar When you can eat macaroni, pizza and french fries With so few chinese people But we had fun and they worked hard |
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Do I just have to say that I'm a poet to convince you? | ||
Stupid System |
Hangzhou TV station want to do a program about us. (My two french girl partners and I) Of course, we're gonna be the foreigners So interested by chinese culture They already planned everything Broadcasted in the whole country Even if I become a very famous artist I won't never have such an audience |
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They told us to be natural They promised about some points. (Not a stupid film about stupid tourists) They said it won't be a fiction. But it did. We just played like actors all days long "Smile! Look at this! Pretend to shoot with your camera!" I tried to do some personal things We tried to reverse the program, to pervert, subvert main idea of the show Next time we'll ask to be paid |
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People's Park - Shangaï | Old woman did tai qi The elderly are so beautiful in here Saturday morning, while kids look at tv in Europe So early, chinese people sing in the park Play mahjong or chinese chess Practice gymnastic, learn to dance While my mind is still in my bed Some miles away |
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To Shen / Ramada Plaza / ShangaÔ | In the van to Hangzhou 48km left I remember your way of saying Take it? When we hadn't any ticket The 14th of january 2002 |
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Betting the money of my studies | Some nights, I play a 6 cards' game from Seychelles With Seychelles' guys Betting money of my studies I can't win every time But I'm not that bad neither |
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Today was a good day for social experience I came in a Portraitist photograph store They used to shot young married, in studio mostly I dream often about the Giorgio Armani suit I'll never can afford to buy Here, for some chinese money, I wore a married dress I don't know why I felt like Marylin Monroe, Me, the dress and the cotton breast One in a lifetime is perhaps not enough for a girl But it's a lot for a guy like me |
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I'm sitting here in my room Waiting for the water to become warm and wash myself Writing down this notes Thinking that no one will accept to publish this The 29th of january 2002 |
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I didn't promise about any good resolutions for the new year For my birthday and the chinese new year I want to start finding my own way |
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Feeling sick in this so-called "great" bar Two days with chinese medication Have to finish my contract before to see a doctor I think chinese will prefer seeing me in a party Than recovering my sickness. |
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Sometimes, like this night I feel so tired that I write down some notes To not falling asleep beside the others guests But I'm too tired to write something beautiful |
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Russian girls asked me to teach them How to say I love you Do you love me? I miss you In french They don't wanna know anything more They're just as superficial as I thought |
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In a supermarket Acting like a kid I'm real estate interpreter What a word for such a job |
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Ok, She, she always wants to look at my notes Me, I don't wanna share this things anyhow I start to sleep awaked In my chair Trying to keep myself aware And my job will be done Then I'll be paid Then I could sleep With the eyes closed |
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China doesn't get me laugh anymore I will start to become aggressive |
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Tonight, my computer tell me about a great news I'm gonna be uncle When my friends told me they became aunt I always found them pathetic So happy for nothing Extraordinary Now, it's my turn And try to imagine dear reader That's not so pathetic It could drive you a man So stupidly happy |
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In this bar All the waiters have Bon Jovi T-Shirt If he wasn't so untalented It would make me laugh |
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They always drink a lot of beer Quite the same even if the names change All I can say : Imported beer doesn't come from Belgium And that's suck When you're kind of Beer lover |
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Chinese new year | BOOM- BOOM- BOOM I-BOOM- BOOM CAN- BOOM-NOT BOOM- BOOM- BOOM HEAR- BOOM-YOU BOOM- BOOM- BOOM BOOM |
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I don't wanna spend One more night alone It's Chinese new year There MUST be some Drunk Chinese girl Falling in love For no reason |
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There's karaoke on TV In the bar A girl sings to her nail I can't understand Korean character I just supposed that The lyrics Must be Deeply meaningful For a girl To sing To her nail |
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Didn't thought about Valentine's day | In two days It'll be the 14th of February I hate this day It's very easy to say When you don't have Any reason To celebrate it 12/02/2002 |
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Time machine | I wish I could Have a time machine To do things back Another first time Forever |
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Babies never cry | It's now more than a month That I'm here But I still didn't hear Any baby cries Any child neither I just have one explanation It must be forbidden by The government |
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She swallows my brain | Some days are passed Since my last poems I didn't think about writing A lot How incredible A girl Not reaching 1m60 Can do To your mind |
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For Sophavanh |
First time I saw her She danced like a teenager First I felt nothing Then Each part of my body fell in love with her It was just like we were One million people To love her In only one body |
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The fist love revolution
I never see |
My body starts a revolution And I was the battlefield |
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First night together | The first night She slept with my penis in his right hand Just like if it was the most precious thing she possessed at this moment Like it was her wallet I felt so beautifull |
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Sometimes, I'd better work than look at her ass But what an ass |
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Ok, I wrote some stupid love poems So what? Everybody must think they suck Except both of us Anyway if I'm a loser Cause of it I'll be an happy loser |
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St-Omach is full | ||
Waiting in a bank | I sit in a bank and look The stock exchange rate With Chinese people Writing down this note They must think I'm a golden boy |
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Sometimes I just want to be in her Not making love Just be inside her To keep her own personal perfume On me For the rest of the day |
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Paco Rabanne was right |
I saw city Burning into flames But it wasn't Paris or Mir Station neither It's the Chinese celebration Of the light-up festival |
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Laying on the grass Looking at my sandwich Waiting to understand The mystery Of it |
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the Shangaï Check |
à Richard Brautigan avec toutes mes excuses |
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image propriété de JP Vienne |