heureuse nouvelle année ! / happy new year 2 U all

Ancienne prison Saint-Michel de Toulouse / Former prison Saint-Michel de Toulouse

Nouvel an carcéral / New prison year...

Betty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_N910yjU4

You're not sleepy.
You smoke and you watch
You're all scratched up
You're like a sad cat
Lost on the list
Lost and Found
The prison night
Falling on the slabs
And that icy bed
Coming and going
Sun and smile
Are on the other side

These walls, these fences
Those doors and cages
These corridors, these keys

That loneliness
So hard and tough
That we can touch her
This moonbeam
On the floor lights
Forgotten face
From the one you love
Who pulls on his chain
Like a wounded wolf

Betty don't crack
Betty don't dive
I know, they laid you down there.
And then they shut down their steel bars

Betty don't cry
Betty don't shake
I know, you're gonna stay here

You don't want to wake up, you don't want to dream...

I'm saying "I love you"
In this short poem
In that long kiss
You're my sister.
Just a woman
That I rhymed
I give you my strength
My words and notes
To keep you warm
I hate morals.
Central Prisons
Remand homes

I'm not sleepy.
I smoke and I stay up

And I composed
A love song
A rescue song
For the other side
For those who are thrown away
In the dungeons
In the darkness
While people sleep
At the bottom of the conform
Without waking up

Betty don't crack
Betty don't dive
I know, they put you down there.
And then they shut down their steel bars

Betty don't cry
Betty don't shake

You know, we'll meet again...
Elsewhere, in the sunshine



La prison Saint-Michel de Toulouse aux allures extérieures de château fort du Moyen Âge a été conçue par l'architecte départemental Jacques-Jean Esquié en 1855, sous le règne de Napoléon III.
André Malraux (écrivain et résistant), chef des maquis du Lot sous le nom du Colonel Berger dans la clandestinité, y séjourna en attendant la libération de la ville lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Depuis le début des années 1980, les détenus en semi-liberté sont accueillis dans le couvent mitoyen des Lazaristes. En 2000, le ministère de la Justice programme le transfert des détenus vers la maison d'arrêt de Seysses et le centre de détention de Muret. En 2001, l'explosion de l'usine AZF (de transformation du pétrole, filiale de Total) endommage le couvent. Les prisonniers en semi-liberté déménagent dans l'ancien quartier des femmes. [Wikipedia] De nombreux habitants des quartiers limitrophes sont dévastés par cette explosion et tardent encore, 19 ans plus tard, à être indemnisés des nombreux dommages, tant matériels que psychologiques et pathologiques dont ils furent victimes, malgré leurs recours multiples.

The Saint-Michel prison in Toulouse, which looks like a medieval fortified castle, was designed by the departmental architect Jacques-Jean Esquié in 1855, during the rule of Napoleon III.
André Malraux (writer and Resistance fighter), leader of the Lot maquis under the name of Colonel Berger in hiding, stayed there while awaiting the liberation of the town during the Second World War.
Since the beginning of the 1980's, the prisoners in semi-liberty are welcomed in the adjoining convent of the Lazarists. In 2000, the Ministry of Justice scheduled the transfer of detainees to the Seysses prison and the Muret detention centre. In 2001, the explosion at the AZF plant (oil processing plant, a subsidiary of Total) damaged the convent. Prisoners on semi-liberty moved to the former women's quarter. [Wikipedia.fr] Many residents of the neighborhoods were affected by this explosion and, 19 years later, are still waiting to receive compensation for the many material, psychological and pathological damages they suffered, despite their multiple claims.

Tout cela t'est destiné, entre autres, toi mon âme obscure ...


You may understand now, you all, why I don't like fences... Even if you don't mind!