ELECTRONIC PANDORA’S BOX
He lives behind his box
Spending, earning
sharing, rendez-vousing
leaving, loving
So many opportunities
fall flat on the screen
None to fill up
the emptiness of his new life
He never knows whether he’s opening
his email box or an enamelled bin
Denying the critical mind
he thinks he still possesses
he can’t prevent himself from opening
every single door
He sits running after
a true life he’ll never grab
Last nail to his coffin
wireless or not
the mouse is no buoy
He dies behind his box
Olivier Cousin was born in 1972 in Brittany (Western part of France) where he teaches French. Among his poetry books, the most recent are: La Hache de sable et autres poèmes (La Part Commune, 2015), Fragments du journal d’Orphée (Kutkha éditions, 2014). He has also published novels, short stories and children books. He has also translated into French two books of poetry by the English poet Roy Eales who now lives in Brittany. And sometimes he writes strange poems directly in English…
See : http://oliviercousin.blogspot.fr
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