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Poetry Slam - 02/10/08

Can’t be bothered

de Patti Smith


Salena Godden (Royaume-Uni) vit à Londres. Elle est connue en tant que poétesse, mais aussi comme animatrice radio, performeuse et chanteuse du groupe ska punk Saltpeter. Pendant sa tournée aux États-Unis en 2001, elle a travaillé en dehors de ses spectacles avec des enfants sans abri. Elle est parfaitement à l’aise sur les scènes internationales et a participé à des festivals en Australie, en Serbie, en Croatie et en Bosnie. En 1999, elle a créé le show « saltpeter radio » pour offrir un forum à la poésie également à la radio. En 2003, elle a travaillé avec la BBC Radio4 sur une série dénommée Bespoken Word qui lui a valu d’être nominée pour le Sony Award 2004. (www.myspace.com/wearesaltpeter)

Can’t be bothered

Of course it’s difficult, that’s the whole point you cunt/can’t – be bothered. Tell me something I don’t know, is anything easier what I do? That is the whole point of hard and difficult things. What is the point of doing something easy, what is easy? Is it easy being a total can’t - be bothered? Is it easy being a bank robber, or a pilot, or a heroin addi, or a disabled lesbian, or a lion tamer, or a millionaire, or is it worth, easy, worth, is it, easy, is it easy – to be honest? Is it easy to be first? Anything worth doing is hard and worth doing. Really hard. Of hours and hours and hours until it aches. And every hour until you have it down, you’re doing the best you can, otherwise it’s pointless doing it you cunt. Even being a total cunt takes hard work and hours of dedication, you should know that you cunt. Every day you’re shown evidence against being a total can’t be bothered but every day you insist on being a total can’t be bothered, you’re lying there in your hot little bed, planning on what you can’t be bothered to do next, what you can’t be bothered to say next, if cunts like you had your own way no books, no songs, no paintings, no buildings would’ve ever been completed ‘cause it might be just a little bit of work...
“Hello, my name is Jimmy Henwhatsoever!”
“Hello, my name is Ludwig van Bebothered!”
May as well stay in bed, stay in bed, stay in bed. Picking your nose and wipe it off on the sheets, ‘cause it don’t matter, don’t matter, whatever, can’t be bothered, can’t be bothered, can’t be bothered...
“I had a dream!” Yeah, whatever. Can’t be bothered. Can’t be bothered. If it was left up to you, churches would be left half built and Armstrong would still be on the moon waiting for a ride home, people would die in the middle of can’t be bothered... brain surgery... can’t be bothered, can’t be bothered. Can’t be bothered going to galleries or reading books ‘cause it don’t matter, don’t matter, you want pizza and lots of telly, lots of telly and lots of pizza, lots of pizza and lots of telly, ‘cause you can’t be bothered, you can’t be bothered, you can’t be bothered, now... once upon a time, when you were a baby-can’t-be-bothered it was very hard and very difficult to learn to stand and then learn to walk and even a can’t be bothered like you managed that. Then it was very hard and very difficult to learn to speak cunt/can’t – and you speak “cunt/can’t” fluently like it must be your first language or something. Then it was very hard, very difficult to learn to read and to write and to build ideas, do you understand, theories, histories, to create things and that’s where can’ts/cunts like you stop up the rest of the world that evolves and involves in spite of itself. In spite of you, you can’t – be bothered. Outside it’s filthy with life, thinking and questioning perfection of gifts and talents and finding fantastic ways to communicate dreams and visions. It’s called looking through. It’s called being awake. It’s called being alive.

Edité le : 29-11-07
Dernière mise à jour le : 02-10-08