Pont Mirabeau, je ramasse un rameau.
Je le jette dans l'eau et je le regarde.
Je crache d'en haut, je crache dans l'eau
Et le fleuve m'emmène vers le Havre.
Un vieux corbeau pense tout haut que je devrais être à l'école.
Cela n'est pas faux, mais il fait beau et le tableau noir me désole.

Le tourniquet ne m'a pas vu passer, je ramasse un ticket, je file
Et, sur le quai, libre d'un vase cassé, fuit un joli bouquet de filles.
La solitude me fait marcher, elle a un humour impossible.
Elle fait trembler le petit archer, à chaque fois, il rate sa cible.

Qu'on soit âgé ou bien jeune usager, on regarde ses pieds, pensif.
Le ciel est bleu, le train remue la queue.
On se bouscule un peu, "Passy".
On saute la Seine, c'est un ruisseau d'un coup de rame de métro
Le pont de Bir-Hakeim se reflète en ciseaux sur le fil de l'eau.

Seules en terrasses, les feuilles mortes s'entassent
Sur quelques chaises oubliées
Et, sur les places, les fontaines Wallace
Attendent l'été, désoeuvrées.

Comment trouver une chaussure à mon pied ?
Je ramasse une gifle quand je siffle.
Je fais le beau, je tourne autour du pot
Mais mes phrases tombent à l'eau, poncifs.
Comment trouver une chaussure à mon pied ?
Je vais chez le fripier, je m'habille.
Je suis élégant, qui dirait que ces gants
Sont de deuxième main de fille ?

Une inconnue semble perdue, elle cherche sa rue dans la mienne.
À première vue, elle m'avait plu mais elle entre dans les vespasiennes.

Dans mes foulées, pèse le jour écoulé, ma vigueur, au couchant, décline
Avec le chant d'un clochard affalé sur le banc de l'allée des cygnes.


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