Adaptation du texte d'Olivier Cadiot "Rouge, vert & noir"
Par Charles Bernstein, 1990

the roses
are they
red
in their obscurity ?
one can decide to see
the roses red
in the obscurity

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1.
This is then how, / very struck by this arrow / so struck by this arrow / strike / very struck / so struck / strike

One said, for example / make, let, look, etc.

? (this cataclysm) I have read the description
? the cataclysm that I have read the description of / I read the description

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"target" / ?? the arrow has / touched the target /  strike or touch / so much depends upon / constant / constant / a sole arrow / (pierces) / just one, each / just one each / the eyes closed
"ready to go" = on the point of parting / and see how / One recalls / the years past; all the days; the summer; the winter: Thursdays; / the final day; tomorrow; a day / forest / sky blue / one prepares and parts

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the menace of rain / disperse/dispersed, open/opened / reunite, disperses, etc. / the rain / the rain / reunite, disperse, dissipate / the sky, the skies / (the idea) has flown / very clear

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we part in three days / I ignore if this project pleases you / respond toute suite / y-es, y-es, y-es, /bytheveningsblüuvsummur /what then ! / ta ta ta ! / (silence.) dead silence. (grand silence.) / I will come; — I've come / This is not all / is it that I part tomorrow, / will you come with me / the beautiful sky / grey, native

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and essay a look / voluntarily / that reveals itself / * that is itself revealed / to me / appear, reveals, etc., / "void" / "void" / external, extreme, unique, etc. / of the same blow / a sole arrow, / when all's sunk / see, intend, sense /losing one's head / "void" / "void" / the role of profound objects, etc.

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All's explained / All's explained / agreeable and evident / it is clear, / all's sunk / don't have fear, someone will get you out of it (= I will get you out of it, or maybe even: we will get you out of it) / to me / oh! / God! / "target" / "target" / the wind socks the trees. / what is it that knocks the trees? / by the evenings blue of summer / the same causes produce the same effects / Enough noise; more force

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in the sky blue / this is beautiful to see (= to be seen) / — "in the airs" — / the sky is / so blue,  so / retain well  this / the how, the when, the where, the why / enough, also, as much, a lot / better 'n' better / regret / adieu! pardon! / AH! / Ha! / Oh! / appear,  risk,  etc. / I am certain to succeed