i.m. Villiers de l’Isle D’Adam et Pauvre Lelian
Must be lived in to be lived out –
stepping from Le Gare du Nord –
whatever its gender, however
housed, or homeless, under no roof
but the sky, above your misspelt heart.
How many of them came this way?
Arrival is also departure.
I am fluent in that grammar,
I should say, before you start
to put me right. Fluent, I say,
le mot juste, where otherwise
no justice saw the light of day.