Vancouver au naturel

Don’t you know if you go north, streets’ numbers are decreasing

And the road is simply bowin’ down to those cloudy mountains?

But the way is long to get there! Especially when your shoes

Ain’t bearin’ your lazy feet an’ knees no more! Then in thinking

Of going back, you’re seein’ you’re half-way home and blocks

Seem like an inextricable board game, and, whereas you could

Take a bus, you’re just goin’ on.

Was I gonna get lost? I would,

Actually, have loved it because I guess it’s just some dreams

Of freedom’s seeker…

Otherwise, another day, I took a walk thru

English Bay and its dusky beaches where lovely children are

Emerging from some sandy greenish mood. And as the solar

Star wasn’t shinin’, I was strolling in some darkness, through

A daydreaming till I saw these tramps sleeping against a wall

And I sincerely felt that love is not all, freedom is not all.

 

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by Gregory Pellegrini, from France