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Paris
Not that close
Not that far
Twenty years old
Slightly older
Slighlty younger
Matthieu
Céline
Salem
Lisa
Ronnie
Intertwined fates
for French youngsters
in disarray
marked by July 12th 1998
And April 21th 2002
In their ear plugs
Bach
NTM
or Kurt Cobain
And even the three of them...
...why not
They've crossed each other due to a small chance only
A matter of timing
As improbable as this 1st of November 2004 and its roar
"French 9/11"
on the "Gare du Nord" train station
as the news report
Between asphyxia
tensions and accusations,
in one's throat, the wish to shout is growing, to feel
a pulse of life
What if everything was not already written?
What if the career counselor had been wrong?
Whatever
Even better actually
as it widens their field of possibilities
The start of a wild race is announced
A fugue
plural
where Matthieu
Céline
Salem
Lisa
Ronnie
are following
pursuing
avoiding each other
Counterpoints
around the same themes
Exhilirating breakaway, as life ahead
As the void ahead
Funambulists without safe net, literally
or figuratively
A line to reinvent themselves
A line to dream all the things that are yet to be lived
All the things they have to live