#504 La Belle Lurette

The bilboquet is monocular, a
cyclops in an uninhabited land-
scape whose presence does not

change the land around even if 
it does add some life to its sur-
rounds, even if the addition of


a cloak brings more humanity.
Elsewhere, the ruined watch-
tower is in the act of changing, 

those roots insinuating a future 
tree, even if il y a belle lurette, even
if that started a long time ago.

  

#503 Jeunesse

From Amazon in Belgium 
I can order this as a "Canvas 
Wall Art Print for Living Room 
Home Decor Ready to Hang
(90 x 117 cm (31.5 x 46.1 in)), 
Framed" for just €191.26. I 
think of buying it, to see if 
it does for me what another 
portrait did for Dorian Gray. 

But then, but then. At 81 
it's probably too late to weave 
any magic it might have had 
on me, even though the web-
site says it's a great gift idea 
for Valentine's Day which 
just happens to be today. 
What finally turns me away 
is a sudden vision of the 

aging process occuring — 
since we have no attic — in 
the back garden shed, the 
teeth at first, then the lungs, 
the hearing, the knees. It's 
not the actual deterioration, 
rather the caveat from the 
vendor: that spare parts are 
not available nor provided.