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Boule et Bill

from Damien est vivant by Marie Klock

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lyrics

Elles sont longues, longues, longues, les journées
Tellement longues
Je traîne pieds nus entre la chambre et la cuisine
Les choses à faire, je vais les faire, mais pas tout de suite
J’ai la léthargie au corps et le moral qui dégouline
16h déjà, c’est quoi l’estime de soi ?
Accomplir quelque chose avant de me démaquiller
J’ai même plus de quoi bouffer ni me torcher le cul
Pour me sentir exister je vais au supermarché
Attends, tu sais pas que je vais chez Monop
Juste pour avoir une raison de mettre du rouge à lèvres
Et d’enfiler enfin un slip propre
Dehors, pimpante ; dedans, la fièvre
Comme ça, ces deux retraités et le responsable du rayon laitages
Se demanderont sur mon passage : 
Mais qui est cette femme à l’étrange aura
Qui n’achète rien d’autre que du PQ et une boule de mozzarella
A l’heure où les gens normaux sont encore au bureau ?

Attends, le matin, tu ne sais pas que je suis d’humeur suicidaire
Et que je lis des livres pour enfants jusqu’à midi
En écoutant France Culture
Sans le son
Si je suis dans une bonne journée
Je prends la voix d’Yves Mourousi jusqu’à 14h
Puis je fais la vaisselle
Même s’il n’y en a pas.
Après ? J’alterne les siestes
Entre le canapé et le lit
Je fais des allers-retours, quoi
Avec, parfois, un Boule et Bill à la main
Boule et Bill que je n’ouvre même pas
Mais qui me rassure.
16h
Il fait enfin nuit
Sauvé
La mauvaise conscience
Se couche avec le soleil
Quelques mensonges bien troussés
Me permettront de tenir
Jusqu’au sommeil.

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They're long, long, long, the days, so long
I drag my bare feet between the bedroom and the kitchen
The things I’ve got to do, I'm going to do them, but not right away
I'm lethargic in my body and my spirits are dripping
4pm already, what's self-esteem?
Get something done before I take off my makeup
Don't even have enough to eat or wipe my ass
To feel like I exist, I go to the supermarket
Wait, you don’t know that I'm going to Monop'
Just to have a reason to put on some lipstick
And finally put on a clean pair of panties
Out, dapper; in, fever
So that those two pensioners and the man in charge of the dairy section
Will wonder as I pass:
But who is this woman with the strange aura
Who buys nothing but toilet paper and a ball of mozzarella
At a time of day when normal people are still at the office?

Wait,
in the morning you don't know that I'm in a suicidal mood and that I read children's books until midday listening to France Culture with the sound turned off.
if I'm having a good day, I do Yves Mourousi’s voice until 2pm, then I do the dishes, even if there aren't any.
then I alternate naps between the sofa and the bed, going back and forth, yeah... sometimes with a Boule and Bill in my hand, a Boule and Bill that I don't even open, but which reassures me.
4pm it finally gets dark
saved.
a bad conscience sets with the sun
a few well-crafted lies will allow me to survive until sleep.

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from Damien est vivant, released March 29, 2024

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Marie Klock Holving, France

Marie Klock was born in a bunker next to a coal mine in the North-East of France. She grew up reading books, playing piano and having imaginary friends in the countryside behind Puttelange-aux-Lacs, which more or less means Whore-angel-by-the-Lake.
After many years in Berlin, she has settled in Paris where she spends most of her time talking to the pigeons.
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