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Poetry translated from La Chanson du mal-aimé by Guillaume Apollinaire

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Song of the Outcast


Milky Way O luminous girl
Of the white streams of Canaan
Of the white skin of lovers
Dead swimmers will we follow
Your flight to other nebulas

The demons of chance lead us
In the song of the firmament
And to their lost fiddles
The human race is dancing
In their descent and backwards

Destiny destiny inscrutable
Kings shaken by insanity
And those shivering stars
False women in your beds
Wastes history overcomes

Leopold the old prince regent
Guardian of two mad kings
Does he sob dreaming them
As the fireflies flicker
In gold midsummer night





By a château sans a lady
A barque with barcaroles
White lake a breath of wind
Shaking in spring a dying
Swan was sailing O siren

One day the king drowned
Himself in silver water
Mouth open floated back
To shore to sleep still with
Face to the changing sky

June your sun’s fire’s a lyre
Burning my tender fingers
Sad and lyric delirium
I stray through lovely Paris
Without the heart to die

Sundays are eternal
And the hurdy-gurdy
Sobs in the grey square
Flowers on Paris balconies
Lean like the tower of Pisa

Paris nights drunk on gin
Blazing with electricity
Streetcars green fire spine
Music on down the line
Of rails crazy machines

Cafés blowing with smoke
All love the gypsies cry
The sniffling soda fountain
The waiters in loincloths
To you you I loved so

I who know lays for queens
The complaints of my days
Slave hymns to the eels
The ballad of the outcast
And the song to the siren

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from Mirabeau Bridge, released April 8, 2022
Poetry recited by Larry Beckett
Music by Stuart Anthony
Produced by Paul Walmsley

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Stuart Anthony and Larry Beckett Lancaster, UK

Stuart Anthony is a singer/songwriter working with Tim Buckley lyricist & American poet Larry Beckett.

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