SELF DEFENSE
What I won’t say
when I lie
is that I don’t tell the truth
when I lie.
I may lie
when I say
that I won’t lie
when I say I don’t lie.
Why I lie
when I say
that I won’t lie
is a way of telling
half truths.
Olivier COUSIN was born in 1972 in Brittany (Western part of France), where he teaches French. Among his poetry books, the most recent are: Poèmes sans titre de transport (Stéphane Batigne, 2017), Les riches heures du cycliste ordinaire (Gros Textes, 2017), and La Hache de sable et autres poèmes (La Part Commune, 2015). He has also published five novels (the latest being Les Vieux Fantômes de Tristan Trassire in 2015), short stories and three children books. And sometimes he feels like writing poems directly in English (see Bindweed Magazine #1, #3 and NoPoezia #7, a Bulgarian poetry magazine).
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