15 February

Chez Cadnam so we never had to face the rain but were the hosts and I held the fort for Myra. A nice easy short sentence poetry by Jacques Prévert, France's most widely read poet since Victor Hugo, born in Paris in 1900.
'Paroles' (Words), his first collection of poetry, appeared late in 1945.
By the mid-1960s more than a million copies of it and other collections of his poems were in print.
Jacques Prévert died of lung cancer in 1977.
This poem, 'Breakfast', captures the sadness of a faltering relationship, where communication has ceased.

Déjeuner du matin
Il a mis le café
Dans la tasse
Il a mis le lait
Dans la tasse de café
Il a mis le sucre
Dans le café au lait
Avec la petite cuiller
Il a tourné
Il a bu le café au lait
Et il a reposé la tasse
Sans me parler
Il a allumé
Une cigarette
Il a fait des ronds
Avec la fumée
Il a mis les cendres
Dans le cendrier
Sans me parler
Sans me regarder
Il s’est levé
Il a mis
Son chapeau sur sa tête
Il a mis
Son manteau de pluie
Parce qu’il pleuvait
Et il est parti
Sous la pluie
Sans une parole
Sans me regarder
Et moi j’ai pris
Ma tête dans ma main
Et j’ai pleuré.

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