BETWEEN
Is it difficult, you ladies dear,
to lie between two chairs here?
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IF
If only we could fit together our egos
like we do with our Legos!
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CAIN AND ABEL
So all men will be brothers at ease?
Help me, please!
Love is blind and deaf, but it has completely healthy children.
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GODFATHER
Even for atheists
鈥� I鈥檓 sure of this 鈥�
godfathers, in fact, do exist.
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ANGEL
鈥淵ou鈥檙e my angel!鈥� she chatted in a whisper.
But I acted as if I had no gender.
A man is a man, he hardly changes therein.
He wants his own car, his own cottage, his own house and 鈥� foreign women!
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PLATONIC LOVE
You may have to give for this love sage
Nothing more than your whole wage!
Where would humanity be if Noah had embarked in a canoe?
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BIOGRAPHY
First an erotic.
Then a sclerotic.
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MENTALITY
Even if you allow them
to use you to wipe
only the finest porcelain,
you will not acquire the mentality of porcelain
only the mentality of a rag
When your wife yawns by your side, she won鈥檛 go to bed with you.
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OPINION
It鈥檚 easiest to change your opinion
when you don鈥檛 have one.
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THE PROBLEM OF THE MOUNTED POLICE
A policeman can more easily adapt
to a change of uniform
than his horse can.
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TORSO
A woman without a head is a torso. Why? Tell me!
After all, what makes a woman a woman is still in its place, see!
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THE WORD
With frequent usage
All credibility is
Lost by the word
So goes the heart
Eventually akin to a turd
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DEMAND
The emptier the heart is
the more it demands
additional foreign blood
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LOOK
Look at the photograph
of your parents
year by year they look
younger
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A THOUGHT
A thought should never be
too large
to fit
into your head
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PURPOSE
An eggshell
is broken from without
for one purpose
and from within for another
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FLAGS
Flags change鈥ven those that are proud鈥�
It鈥檚 the flagpoles that remain avowed.
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A COIN
The start
of a football match
is decided by the tossing of a coin
this is the only time
that money
decides something
in a just manner
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COMPLICATED PRODUCT
A man is the only
complicated product
during whose production
we can be
absent in spirit
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WHAT KOHN SAID
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The Lord didn鈥檛 love me
when I was born
it was pouring
when I got married
it was pouring
it even started raining
when they dragged me
into the concentration camp
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Translated by听Clarice Cloutier听