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Sometimes,

reality is too complex

for oral communication.

But legend embodies it

in a form

which enables it to spread

all over the world.

Good evening Madame

and you Monsieur

The following is only a tender farewell

From a homeless refugee

Who on the stage thought to find

In words, a gentle refuge

O! You young masters and mistresses

Accept without any anger

The complaint of a traveler

Who followed a princess

Into a theater heavens, what misfortune.

The idiot thought in his fright

That if any freedom remained

In our unloved Europe

It was in spoken promises

That flow from the actor's body

How many letters?

How many images?

How many books, all well-written

Were sent in spite of the storm

But received in recompense

Only absence, silence, indifference?