In the museum, we look
at the attendants: a gangster
a beach girl with sleepy eyes
and a man who's almost falling
but he startles and hobbles away
to the hall with glass tombstones
We see people wait
gloomily, enjoy
a cigar at the end
suppress the disaster at the piano
with a smile, scream to win
their case with their husbands
or cry and jump in
the lifeboats sauve qui peut
(la vie)
Poem 1129 Amsterdam, 2017-03-05 Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Friday, August 25, 2000 "Tombeaux" by Jan Vercruysse (glass tombstones) "The sinking of the Titanic" (1912, directed by Mime Misu), film, screened in three parallel projections Collection:Local contractions Keyword:Fate Keyword:France%