Être Fou - Être Libre

In France, in the town Sierck Les Bains, close to the German and Luxembourgish border, there hang a lot of signs which should bring the people to an art exposition. They were made out of metal, varnished black and polished, that you could see yourself inside of them. They were so beautiful

The signs said Être Fou and Être Libre on a crowdy street, always cars were coming along. They hang two men high on telephone and electricity poles. Too high. But one man wanted them. And he was crazy and free enough - how the signs wanted. Let us join him in the last moments of this night.

“On the one side of the street there was an old people’s home. And in this old people’s home they had a treadmill on the first floor, directly behind a huge window. And on this treadmill, one rainy Saturday eve, there was an old man trying to run away from the age, while in his back, on the other side of the street, I stood on a metal fence belonging to a private house, waggling with pincers on the first of two metal belts which fixed the last of the two exposition-signs

It just became dark and late. The distances between the cars going along the road were becoming longer and longer. When I heard one coming, I jumped down, and walked a bit, looked after my hard bleeding wound on my right forefinger, which didn’t hurt cause of my adrenalin, but which colored everything red. Before climbing the fence again, I had a look to the old man on the treadmill. But he still ran silent for my ears with his back to the outside world in his lightened room.

The first metal belt broke. The sign bent. A car came, I jumped down. The second belt was more stubborn. But by my will-power I broke it as well. Immediately I hold the sign with my left uninjured hand that it would not lose his beauty by a crash and would not smash noisy at one of the cars parking under it, close to the door in front of the little private house, where the guest were enjoying a tasty red wine at the same time. Maybe. Just few meters away separated from me by the house facade.

I left the fence and crossed the street to my car I had parked under the running old man. He didn't saw how I stow it away, the second sign, over the first in my trunk. How I started the engine and drove away. Slowly And he didn't saw the fireworks in the black sky coming from a public party on the nearby river while I crossed the border. But I did.

Coming Soon

It won't take a long time until you will read on this blog, how difficult it could be to steal beautiful add-signs on a crowdy French Highway. En plus: An unknown village street artist has done something with the face of Mao Tse Tung. And my father will tell you - if I bring him to this - about his detention in the Soviet Union in the early eighties.

Stay tuned!

Time For A Poem

 

Black Mosquito Bites My Mind

A mosquito came looking for
where my blood flows
and it finally found the door
where even trees would grow

Where rivers of my wine
would shine
like the sun
so deep red before the night
until the darkness come'

Oh, mosquito, your gloomy bite
I'd like to carve it to feel fine

Alex Cousteau, July 2012

Tasting Strange Food

 

Part Two - White Something

I've already been full by two portions of tasty Indian masala, when Stéphanie tried to explain that there is still desert in her fridge. She came back with a plate full of sweets and gave me that white something.

She bought it in an Indian Shop and couldn't exactly say what it is. So, I will try it: First of all, this four by four centimeter cube without numbers is not useful to bring you in front during a game. So it's a good idea to follow the philosophy of three years old children who just would put it in their mouth.

In one piece it's too big. And there came the first problem: It turned out that this white something was really hard to break although its rough surface imagined before, it would have to be soft. But the first tiny crumbs I got away from it, changed my gloomy mind into a sunny meadow. So sweet it was, so full of dreams.

I guess it's made out of cocos, almonds, fat and a truck full of sugar. You can't stop eating it although you know that it will cost you at least three months of your life.


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