Indiscrete series
(of beggars and gangsters)

                                                                             

vita:

stutter started as the political climate sutured
became paradoxically more homophobic because
the French gvt voted a law on gay marriage fresh
homophobia (theirs) increased it altered my language phonically
dispersal my self gulped speech fluid lips rased 
lisps read slips real lids spare read slips pills

                                                                                 

I want
to stick
my tongue

out to body 
forth letters

my beggars
my gangsters

my bribe (/bri:b/)
& birbia (/bribia/)

*

tidal
disruption 
event

eating
a morsel
of political 
antimatter

                                                                             

sl-slipped on the reading tripped on
hatred up against l-g-and-other-letters dread
w-when the gvt passed the law la haine
tr-translated beggar became gangster ardent salt

                                                                                 

depuis
(since then)

ardent
salt

I my voice 
breaks

does not
go on

antimatter
me

and yet
I want it

to

                                                                                                                                            

a slat black hole at the heart of the galaxy spat
tidal disruption event light curves faltering ideal
a star passes so close to a black hole it’s pulled aside
the black hole’s tidal force bah choke tell blah cloth eke bloke etch Hal:

Jean Genet says: “flowers and convicts are closely linked
the roughness of the fabric they wear is reminiscent of flowers with hairy petals”  

                                                                              

antimatter
me

you quicken
want to

move on
and with 

ardent
salt last

move you
break in

ruptures
moment

stumbles
on

tidal
event

                                                                             

It’s all starting again 2024 the alt dark stain I stall
It’s about beggars being gangsters again I stall
It’s a confusion they all alt-right want to install
It’s fission fear against those wanting matter 

                                                                             

je ma voix
yo mi voz

myself voice
shy away

body forth
beggars

stick out
your tongue

                                                                             

discussion
how did a beggar become a gangster?
The English word bribe (/braib/) comes from the French bribe (/bri:b/)
The French bribe = fraction, fragments, snippets of sound, short
quotations
comes from the Spanish bribia (/bribia/) 
= the lazy life of beggars and gangsters
and the Italian birba (/birba/) = malice, deceit
meant = a morsel of bread, leftovers given to beggars
then small crumbs a small portion 
then small pieces insignificant pieces of something 
then fragmentary rudimentary knowledge 

Vincent Broqua is a poet, translator and essayist. His work concentrates on ways to learn again the forgotten art of gayety. He is currently working on what he calls "shifty translation." He teaches creative writing and anglophone literature at the university of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. Among his latest publications in English: Recovery (Trans. Cole Swensen -- Pamenar Press, 2023). https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/08/21/vincent-broqua-interviewed/

He translated or co-translated (among others): David Antin, Caroline Bergvall, Kevin Killian, Tracie Morris, Anne Waldman. He is the co-founder and co-curator of the reading series double change (doublechange.org). He lives in France but often works from elsewhere.