Leloup Jean
Love Is Without Pitié
The antique dealer
I am in the city
and I am walking
everything is very quiet
the night is ebony
in a window
white as heroin
an ivory Buddha
five thousand dollars
at the antique store
it's way too expensive
I don't want to be taken for an idiot
even if I have to go to prison
there's no one on the left
there's no one on the right
no one can see me
I'm starting to believe it
the back alley
is abandoned
I think of my mother
quickly forgotten
at the antique store
in the dust
I don't want to be taken for a stupid
even if I have to go to prison
there's no light
and there's no car
except the truck
which is everything messed up
I go to the door
I ring the bell and it rings
the house is dead
It's okay, there's no one
at the antique dealer
damn his mother
I don't want to be taken for an idiot
even if I have to go to prison
I have to go home
take my backpack
there might be more
there might be too much
I'm going, I'll break everything
the back window
the ivory Buddha
five thousand dollars
at the antique store
am I a vandal?
I don't want that I'm taken for an idiot
Even if I have to go to prison
I don't want to be poor, no
I don't want to go to prison.

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