[ALBSA-Info] envirez-vous

[Xhuliana Agolli]

I think this is a particularly apt prose poem at THIS TIME for most 
global-villagers(or at anytime--for me).
----
Charles Baudelaire

Envirez-Vous

Il faut etre toujours ivre. Tout est la: c'est l'unique question.
Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps qui brise vos epaules et vous 
penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans treve.
Mais de quoi? De vin, de poesie ou de vertu, a votre guise.
Mais envirez-vous.
Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais, sur l'herbe verte d'un 
fosse, dans la solitude morne de votre chambre, vous vous reveillez, 
l'ivresse deja diminuee ou disparue, demandez au vent, a la vague, a 
l'etoile, a l'oiseau, a l'horloge, a tout ce qui fuit, a tout ce qui parle, 
demandez quelle heure il est; ete le vent, la vague, l'etoile, l'oiseau, 
l'horloge, vour repondont:<<Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'etre pas les 
esclaves martyrises du Temps, envirez-vous; envirez-vous sans cesse! De vin, 
de poesie ou de vertu, a votre guise.>>
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Get Drunk!

One should always be drunk. It is all there: it is the only question.
So as not to feel the horrible burden of Time that breaks your shoulders and 
bows you down to the ground, you should get drunk unceasingly.
But with what? With wine, with poetry or with virtue, as you please.
But get drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, 
in the gloomy solitude of your room, you are waking up, drunkenness already 
diminished or missing, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the 
clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, 
all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them what time it is; and 
the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will respond: "It is time 
to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get 
drunk without ceasing! With wine, with poetry or with virture, as you 
please.


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