À la recherche de Bartleby
Excellent piece by Jake Nabasny in 3:AM, ‘Bartleby politics: disavowal, derangement, and drugs.’
Romance
By Rimbaud.
I
You’re not serious, when you’re seventeen.
– One fine evening, tired of beers and lemonade,
The noisy cafés with their dazzling gleam!
– You walk the lime-trees’ green on the Parade.
The lime-trees smell so fine on fine June evenings!
The air’s so sweet sometimes you close your eyes:
The wind is full of sounds – the town’s nearby –
Blows the smell of beer, and the scent of vines…