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Well, To Be Born, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Or D'Etre Ne By T Wignesan
Well, To Be Born, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Or D'Etre Ne By T Wignesan
Well, to be born…Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Or d’etre ne… by T. Wignesan
Now to be flesh of a man and a woman
All my life I will long for that
Without any hope of being re-born, being born
Of an absent father and a demented mother
Both the names continue to elude my quest
Come together one day by chance to beget me
And dead some day without ever having my authors be
Yet these two inexistant beings are my father and mother
I love them in this corner of my memory gone dim
Where as a young couple they posed at the portals
Of a town hall or of a church in a village
After which without me they vanished into thin air.
Note : Both the poet’s parents left him when he was barely three weeks old to be brought up by a paternal uncle in Lyon and emigrated to the States.
(from L’Autre, o.c. t. II, p. 970)
© T. Wignesan – Paris, October 14, 2014
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2014
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