Anti-Heroin Chic
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Music
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • About Our Contributors
  • Masthead
  • Issues
  • About our contributors - 2019
  • About Our Contributors - 2020
  • About Our Contributors - 2021
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Music
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • About Our Contributors
  • Masthead
  • Issues
  • About our contributors - 2019
  • About Our Contributors - 2020
  • About Our Contributors - 2021
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

​

11/28/2020

Poetry by Yolanda Mpelé

Picture
                            ​M I T C H Ǝ L L CC


​
Sober

my love, my romance
who were you when you were not here ?
who else did you promise the world to? The moon ? And other milky ways ?
I like to boast about my healthy health, my readiness, my already set
when the public is gone
my act turns to melo, humdrum, sweet tragedy

who were you when you were not here ?
I won't tell you. my secret, my shame, my unauthorised biography
you said you would have loved me (no matter what)
but we wouldn't have even met
I had another lover, stronger, stickier, shinier (but not made of gold)
he was called alcohol and I lived with him and all his children, shame, sadness and loneliness
the two of us loved to hang out at night laughing together, crying together, singing together
you wouldn't have had any space my love
you wouldn't even have known you were in a ménage à trois
like in a vaudeville, i knew where to hide him, closets are everywhere

and then one day
it wasn't daytime but dawn. when demons are still sleeping.
I met the one you have in front of you
I married her on the spot
she woke up dancing
liquor makes her sick you see (that's why she took her time to manifest)
she's always ecstatic
I am me, you are her

this dance, this call, this vibration
she is me I am her
present in the present
together we waltz

your turn, my love
who were you when you were not here ?



Picture
Yolanda Mpelé is a theatre actress and a translator. Born and raised in France, she studied languages and the performing arts in London, UK. She is currently part of the ensemble at NTgent theatre in Ghent, Belgium. She writes poetry in French and in English.


Comments are closed.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    December 2024
    November 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    March 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.