Charles Beauregard

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

“Poem

Things will go on like this for
Ever. No
Thing shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall be
There. No
Thing but
Blue rocks shall
Fill the valley where I
Sleep.
Things shall go on like this for
Ever.
Things shall be un
Broken.
No action shall shatter. No
Thing shall escape and no
Body shall shatter ideas and no
Being shall shatter. No
Tree. No
Blade of grass shall
Be present to
Witness the
Incident.

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Everything shall be always thus. No
Thing shall be turned or moved.
Touched.
All shall forever be so.”
― Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977

“Each Whining Thing (1929)

When stripèd snakes shall creep upon us
And the nervous screams of birds
Make silent all the fountains and the orchards and when these
Have caught upon the wing each wing
That flutters from the sky
Then shall I and then shall I
Rip out the smiles from garden walks
Transform the minnows into hawks
Tarantulas and bees
Then shall I and then shall I
Unmake each whining thing.”
― Paul Bowles, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977