SHORTCUTS TO LIMBO, Martin Payette

 

1.

At least our darkness can’t reach the sky.

2.

Everything is so transient that even this sentence cannot be fixed.

3.

Too much food on my plate, and still starving for beauty.

4.

Conceiving emptiness is possible when you read this.

5.

The dream is over, but his mirage still remains.

6.

So close to death and still looking for entertainment.

7.

The end is near but there’s still some time left before the very end.

8.

Your abyss deserves kindness, too.

9.

You cannot have a grip on emptiness.

10.

Being nothing is not easy, it needs practice.

11.

No beauty can pretend witchcraft forever.

12.

Death always got an edge when I come.

13.

Look at the mirror and see : you don’t know who your dealing with.

14.

Reproach to myself, reproach to others : waters from the same dwell.

15.

A doctor can only heal, but a writer is also authorized to wound.

16.

Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire a year before writing Walden. Nowadays, a lot of dropouts need to take the plane to flee civilization.

17.

Oil is the sperm of our transport.

18.

Hate is passed from parent to child. 

Indifference can be transmitted by anybody.

19.

Her beautiful face disfigured by capitalism.

20.

Their lips were swollen with money, but the rest of their face was disfigured by capitalism.

Martin Payette is a Lofi musician and poet. He lives in Montreal and knows a lot about wandering 

in his city, or in foreign countries. He has published one book of poetry in French and now shifting focus to beginning a Lofi music channel on YouTube.