Films. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
Films. (Translation) .
Je les ai tenus tous, aucun n'est rejete, aucun donne au marchand de chiffons, aucun jete dans un coin avec un 'P-f-f'.
Les rouges et les bleus, les longs aux rayures, et chacun des petits noirs et blancs a carreaux.
Tiens-les: je dis a mon coeur: tiens-les un autre an, encore dix ans: on les voudra encore.
Ils sont venus une fois, ils sont venus facilement, ils sont venus comme une premiere rafale de neige tard en octobre,
Comme n'importe quelle belle chose soudaine et presomptueuse, et ils etaient bon marches au prix, bon marches comme la neige.
Ici un rouge et la un long film aux rayures jaunes,
Oh il n'y aura aucun chiffonier qui aura ceux-ci avant un an, encore dix ans.
- 'Films'. Carl Sandburg.
He has decided to keep all his old, cheap films and not let them go to the rag man. The films were cheap like the snow, and in ten years they will be wanted again. I think that the red ones, blue ones, long striped ones, and black- and- white check ones, refers to the packaging of the films. For most of Sandburg's life, films were in black and white.
I agree with the sentiments expressed here in such long, supple lines. It is like keeping old DVDs in our time, which I mostly do: The DVDs were sold cheap by video rental shops and were a real bargain. I have played some of them many times over, never tiring of them.
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