2016-09

• "LORD OF THE WORLD" SEP
by Robert H. Benson 2016

• Labor Day

• U.N. Poll Watchers • Bouillon -
Baffled U.S. doesn't Beef Stew
Require I.D. to Vote

• Atis Lakay
THIERRY

BARTHOLE

2 Feature-of-the-Month
4 En guise d'éditorial
8 & the Beat Goes On...
10 Idées de lecture
14 Atis Lakay
18 Through the Grapevine
20 Sak pase, Ayiti?
22 Cooking with Coucou
26 Astuces Santé
27 Astuces Beauté
28 Astuces Galore
30 Poétisons

Artwork by THIERRY BARTHOLE

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Jounal ki sòti chak mwa an kreyòl, franse ak angle

Maryse C. Elysée, Éditrice

Avec la collaboration de:

Dr. Arold Augustin
Guy Cayemite

& other benevolent contributors

Coucou Magazine a été conçu
pour servir de fenêtre ouverte
sur le monde à la génération des
baby-boomers en particulier;

cependant nous sommes
heureux de compter tout le
monde parmi notre lectorat.

Les actualités d'intérêts sont
recueillies avec soin sur divers

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informer aussi bien que distraire.
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l'épanouissement de ce bulletin.

Merci et bonne lecture!

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• Feature of the Month

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• En guise d’Éditorial

by Maryse C. Elysée

Every election season, the subject of voting fraud becomes a sore subject.
With recent improprieties that favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders
during the primaries as revealed by WikiLeaks, it is quite pertinent to ensure
that the general elections proceed within the legal frame. Voters ID would be
one of the means to verify that not only every voter is eligible to vote but
also votes no more than once. For years, the Democrats have rejected this
e ort claiming it is racist against minority population who cannot a ord an
ID card, though an ID is necessary for simple activities as going to the doctor
or buy cigarettes. Most countries require identi cation while some mark the
voter's nger with indelible ink for the same reason. Read the following
article that the assessment of an international commission which came here
in 2012 to observe our polling places.

U.N. Poll Watchers Ba ed U.S. Doesn't Require
I.D. to Vote

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For the head of Libya’s for Electoral Systems (IFES).
national election commission, Your humble Cable guy
the method by which visited polling places with
Americans vote is startling in some of the international
that it depends so much on o cials this morning. Most of
trust and the good faith of them agreed that in their
election o cials and voters countries, such an open
alike. voting system simply would
not work.
"It’s an incredible system," said
Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled "It’s very di cult to transfer
to the United States along this system as it is to any
with election o cials from other country. This system is
more than 60 countries to built according to trust and
observe today’s presidential this trust needs a lot of
elections as part of a program procedures and a lot of
run by the International education for other countries
Foundation for Electoral to adopt it," Elabbar said.
Systems (IFES). Your humble
Cable guy visited polling The most often noted
places with some of the di erence between American
international o cials this elections among the visitors
morning. Most of them agreed was that in most U.S. states,
that in their countries, such an voters need no identi cation.
open voting system simply Voters can also vote by mail,
would not work. sometimes online, and there's
often no way to know if one
For the head of Libya’s person has votedand there’s
national election commission, often no way to know if one
the method by which person has voted several
Americans vote is startling in times under di erent names,
that it depends so much on unlike in some Arab
trust and the good faith of countries, where voters ink
election o cials and voters their ngers when casting
alike. their ballots.

"It’s an incredible system," said The international visitors

Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled also noted that there’s no

to the United States along police at U.S. polling stations.

6mwiothreCetOlheUacCtnOioU6n0Mocagoaucziniantlresi,eSfsreopttmoember 2016 In foreign countries, police
at polling places are viewed

Sara Al-Utaibi, IFES deputy Many of the visiting election
country director in Jordan, o cials were from emerging
said that the fact that democracies, including Tunisia,
voting is done di erently in Indonesia, Russia, Nigeria, and
di erent U.S. states is highly Yemen. The will spend a total
unusual. In Maryland, for of four days in the United
example, electronic voting is States in a series of workshops
common, whereas in and seminars.

Washington paper ballots "The point is to bring the
predominate. If there are highest-level commissioners
di erent voting procedures and election sta here so they
within another country, can connect and exchange
someone assumes fraud or ideas," said Ambar Riaz
abuse, she said. Zobairi, IFES deputy regional

"What’s very unique about director for the Middle East
the way the Americans do it, and North Africa. "The overall
it’s not the process, it’s the point is to highlight the very
con dence that’s placed in interesting electoral process
the process," she said. "This is that we have here."

what lacks in other countries. Provisional ballots are also a
They say if this would source of puzzlement for
happen in Arab countries it international o cials.
would not work the way it American voters who don’t nd
does in the United States." their names on the rolls can

Many of the visiting vote anyway and verify their
international o cials noted eligibility days later, a system
that there were no not often found abroad.
observers at the polling Ballots in foreign countries are
places to ensure that proper often not as complicated as
voting procedures were ballots in the United States.

being followed. IFES sta ers "Their ballots are simple. We

explained to them that in have a range of things on our

the United States, election ballot, referendums and such.

observers are sent by the In most countries, it’s just

political parties, which president and parliament,"

wouldn’t use their limited
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McCormick, an IFES
with more than 30

One observer from Lebanon "The polls workers are listening

who did not want to be quoted because when the marble goes

pressed sta ers on how the into the jar, there’s a ding. And

ballots are handled before if there are two dings, maybe

and after voting day. He was somebody came in with extra

amazed that ballots are sent marbles in their pocket, so

directly to poll workers and they call the police," she said.

that the handling of those

ballots after the voting ends is Asked how Gambians do a

also entrusted to local poll recount with the marble-based

workers. voting system, McCormick said,

"I have no idea."

In Morocco, the poll workers

take the unused ballots

outside at the end of the night

and burn them, McCormick Source:
said. In Russia, unused ballots
are piled up and a poll worker The
drives a spike though the pile FP

with a hammer. In The Gambia, Group
a country in West Africa, each

voter is given exactly one

marble, which they place in

Oonne otfhteheSlaarmgeemTarobpleic:
collecting jars that are set up

for each candi1dateU. .N. Poll Watchers Baffled U.S. Doesn't Require
I.D. to Vote

2 24 things that require a photo ID

3 Election Fraud: What’s Really Playing Out?

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• And the beat goes on...
by AROLD AUGUSTIN, MD

Random Thoughts:

The Race Hustlers

As I've repeatedly told some friends, I would have moved to Liberia at the rst
opportunity. That is, if I were born in the United States of America, circa 1820.
Some clever people claimed that it would have been di cult to go where you
had no roots. By the way, for the scholars among us, Roots' Kunta Kinte never
existed. In light of his pseudo creation, Alex Haley may have been a race
hustler, himself.

Now, let me jump to an interesting question raised by the wise Walter Williams,
Ph.D. and the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George
Mason University in Fairfax, VA. "How much of the current black misery is
caused by racial discrimination?" Mr. Williams went to school in the 1950's. As he
was living history in the making and he is black, I suspect that he knows one or
two things more than professor Nietzsche and his Martha's Vineyard alumni.

" From the late 1940's to the mid-1950's, black youth unemployment was slightly
less than or equal to white youth unemployment. Today, black youth
unemployment doubles" that of white youth. Asks Dr. Williams, "Would anyone
try to explain the di erence to the argument that there was less racial
discrimination during the 40's and 50's than today?"

Dr Williams also questions the "legacy of slavery" by reminding the hustlers
that black illegitimacy rate was around 15 %, back in the 40's. According to
historian Herbert Gutman, in an article titled " Persistent myths about the
Afro-American family" in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 1975),

10the percentage of black two-parent Families, depending on the city, ranged

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Furthermore, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
the Average black 12th-grade's test scores are either basic or below basic in
reading, writing, or math and science. Dr Williams asks and answers his own
question, " Is this the result of racial discrimination? Hardly. The cities where
black academic achievement is the lowest are the very cities where Democrats
have been in charge for decades and where blacks have been mayors, city
councilors, superintendents, school principals, and teachers."

In conclusion, the wise Dr. Williams feels that the pseudo intellectuals and the
race hustlers are complicit in the socioeconomic and moral decay of the black
population. He also thinks that, even the Ku Klux Klan could not have found a
more deadly mix to destroy all the Blacks in America.

Given the complexity of the issue, I feel that neither Clinton nor Trump can

solve it, and the real danger remains within the race hustlers who keep

pointing at an old bogeyman. Of course, racial discrimination does exist, but it

is not the only factor to explain the state of the Blacks in America. Isn't it time

for the hustlers to say, like the comic character, Pogo, " Yer son, we have met

the enemy and He is us?"

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• Idées de lecture
Lord of the World

Lord of the World. Beautifully re-

typeset with all Latin passages

newly translated in notes. One

of Pope Francis's favorite novels,

Benson's 1907 apocalyptic tale of

the Antichrist is one of the rst

modern dystopias. Humanism

has eliminated world con ict but

practices a subtle barbarism

upon the human mind. Religion

is either suppressed or ignored.

The Catholic Church, con ned to

Robert Hugh Benson ghettos, occupies an increasingly

(Author) perilous position in the public

square. The populace turns

toward euthanasia as the

solution to bodily pain and

spiritual crisis. Meanwhile, a

mysterious gure of apparent

Available at hope, Julian Felsenburgh, rises to

AMAZON.com become the head of a single
world government. The plot

follows a priest, Father Percy

Franklin, who nds himself

caught up in the nal and

increasingly open struggle

between Antichrist and Christ.

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About the Author:

Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI
(when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) have
encouraged Catholics to read Lord of the
World, Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel
that eerily predicted the state of the world at
tChaethboelgicisnnhianvgeolfisttehnee2d1.sBt accekntiunryp.rint and apparently selling well,
Benson’s dystopian tale that, as Pope Francis said, depicts “the
spirit of the world which leads to apostasy almost as if it were a
prophecy,” is generating much talk and not a few articles,
including Dorothy Cummings McLean’s pithy commentary.

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• Atis Lakay

Edouard
Thierry
Barthole

Plastician

Born in Gonaives, Haiti on May 24th 1967, Thierry Barthole le his natal town a er high
school to devote himself to art. He graduated in plastic arts from the National School of
Arts in 1994. The same year, he joins the workshop of Barbot, the name of the founder,
his teacher, Richard Barbot where he improves his skills.
Thanks to his expertise of the black and white, he draws with a technique that seems
more and more perfect. His works were exposed at the Baird Community Center (New
Jersey, 1997), at the Casa del Campo in Dominican Republic (2003) and in The Mozart
Gallery(Le grand bal de la Liberte) in Canada the same year. In Haiti, he had exposed his
works at the Georges Bourdereau Gallery. He also had the honor to draw 5 of of the 6
e gies of the Independence of Haiti’s heroes that were used in the new paper money
issued by the Central bank in 2004.

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A peek at the work of the artist:

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Artwork by THIERRY BARTHOLE

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Contact Information:

321-987-4123

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Things read and/or heard here and there that
may interest you or strike your fancy…

1 American journalism is collapsing before our eyes

2 Kerry Tells Media: Don’t Cover Terror

3 Cities with highest income-equality gaps

4 Five Critical Stories Americans Missed While the
Corporate Media Bashed Colin Kaepernick

5 What is the VA Hiding In “$20 Million Art?”

6 Where do you side on social issues?

7 Regard d'un écrivain sur le Monde

8 How Obamacare fails the poor and middle class 7

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Bitterness: The ULTIMAT…

Bitterness: The ULTIMAT… Most People Have A Her…

Anonymous - The SECR…

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• Sak pase, Ayiti?

Things read and/or heard here and there that may interest
you or strike your fancy… Click on each title to read the
article.

1 Un congressman américain conseille à Obama de visiter
Haiti avant le 9 octobre!

2 Pétition contre American Airlines en Haïti

3 The 131-bed Hôpital Albert Schweitzer

4 This volatile Haiti slum is undergoing a makeover

5 Un atelier pour une meilleure allocation des ressources
du MARNDR

6 Les services de l’OFATMA à la porte de la ville de
Jérémie

7
Hommage à Georges Valmé

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L'hymne à l'amour - Edith…

Espanelly and Henry J - … L'hymne à l'amour - Edith…

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• Cooking with Coucou

Bouillon - Beef Stew

• 2lbs of short ribs

• 1/2 to 1lbs of stew beef Rinse and cut the oranges in half. Juice the oranges
chunks and pour juice into slow cooker saving the oranges for
beef preparation, click on link for instructions on how to
• prepare beef prior to cooking. Prepare the beef in a
1 malanga medium size bowl, add the beef chunks and ribs then
remove access fat and cut beef chunk into bite size
• pieces.
1 large potato
Once the beef has been prepared, lightly steamed add
• into crock pot and add in salt, pepper, 1 can of stock,
1 yuca (frozen) epis, thyme, garlic, onion, tomato paste, 1 chopped

•
1 bonita

•
2 can of beef stock

•
1 cup of cilantro

•
1/8 cup of parsley

•
1/2 cup of watercress

•
1/4 cup of onion chopped

•
1 tablespoon of: our,
seasoning,

• pepper, thyme

• 3 tablespoons of salt celery stick and seasoning salt. Let cook on low, if you
all day, or medium/high temperature, if you have a few

1/2 tablespoon of tomato errands to run, cook until meat is tender (This may
• paste (optional) take 3-4 hours, its a slow cooker). Remove meat once
brown but do not allow meat to get too tender because

• 1 teaspoon of sea salt it will fall apart if left in too long. Add in peeled and
chopped bonita, malanga, potato, and thawed yucca.

• 3 large garlic cloves These don't take too long to cook. At this point, you can
add in the last can of stock. Once the the veggies are

• 1-2 carrot sticks cooked add the chopped celery, chopped carrots,
• 2 sour oranges washed spinach, cilantro, watercress, parsley and
cooked meat into the pot. Mix, stir and let avor come

• 2 celery sticks together.

1 bag of spinach Serve in 30 mins to an hour. Salt to taste, if necessary.

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• Astuces Santé Conseils pratiques
pour se maintenir

en pleine forme

1 The Connection Between Your Thyroid and Chronic Pain
That Doctors Miss Every Time

2 Patate douce aide à garder vagin et mur de l’utérus en
bonne santé

3 Reverse cavities and heal tooth decay with these 5 steps

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• Astuces Beauté Idées géniales pour
se faire une beauté

Exfoliez avec du jus de citron et du sucre

Ingrédients:

• 1 cuillerée à café de sucre de canne biologique
• 2 cuillerées à soupe de jus de citron fraîchement
pressé
• 1 récipient

Préparation

Mélangez une cuillerée à café de sucre de canne biologique avec deux cuillerées à soupe
de jus de citron fraîchement pressé. Massez ce mélange sur le visage, mais évitez le
contour des yeux.
Rincez l'exfoliant à l'eau froide après l'avoir laissé agir pendant dix minutes.
L'acide glycolique contenu dans le sucre restaure une peau abîmée.
Le jus de citron contient de l'acide citrique, lequel est suffisamment abrasif pour gommer
en douceur les peaux mortes, ce qui permet de faire apparaître une couche de peau
fraîche. La vitamine C contenue dans le citron favorise aussi la production de collagène.

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2 Cheveux : les 5 mauvaises habitudes qui vous font frisotter

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• Poétisons!
Violon, mon amour!

© Maryse C. Elysée
Excerpt from "In the Lap ofPShaotgoagrcaipthy"from the Internet

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© Maryse C. Elysée
Excerpt from "In the Lap of Sagacity"

Romantique boléro ou sensuelle rumba
Allègre calypso ou torride samba
L’harmonie entre l’appareil et l’artiste en transe
Demeure absolue en dépit des préférences.
Archet tenu en joue pour ce singulier rite
Violon blotti au chaud dans l’alcôve qui abrite
Le cœur ému frétille tel un geai guilleret
Insolite liaison entre l’humain et l’objet
Ces parfaits étrangers s’épousent plutôt bien
Sous la touche fébrile de l’habile musicien
Le docile instrument subtilement ronronne
Tandis que ses contours évreusement frissonnent.
Les beaux traits en tornade du virtuose trahissent
Ce tacite hyménée pourtant non moins complice
Sous l’égide tumultueuse d’intenses émotions
Éperdument frayant cette folle fusion.
Tantôt suaves et langoureux, tendre câlinerie
Tantôt ardents et robustes, sens en euphorie
Ces élans entre le ménestrel et le violon
Célèbrent l’essence d’une impeccable cohésion.

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Dénudée…

Je suis perdue
Dénudée…
Dépouillée de tout arti ce
Égarée dans les lets de l’amour
Mes émotions font la navette
Entre deux cordes
D’une guitare mal accordée
Les sons qui en découlent
Émergent d’un soupir
Provenant de l’outre-mer
Monde éphémère
Monde dans lequel
Pourtant
J’espère obtenir un bref répit
Me permettant de rêver
A ce qui aurait pu
Si seulement la route
N’était pas saupoudrée de dards

© Régine Coicou Stewart
24 juillet, 2016

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*FEMME-FLEUR*

© *STEPHBROWN*

Il est venu, un soir, con er à l'imminent jardinier
Comment et combien l'une de ses eurs l'avait charmé
Elle est si délicate, disait-il
Si fraîche, si parfumée et si fragile
Qu'il aimait à humer ses mille et une senteurs
Cueillir du bout des lèvres les gouttelettes de rosée
Enfouir ses doigts habiles dans la moiteur de ses pétales
C'était devenu son rituel matinal
Une ode à la femme- eur, une ode à la beauté!

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L'âne dans la peau du lion...

C'est en jouant qu'on baptise
un juif... Ainsi la bêtise
humaine... Ce n'est pas en soi
ce qui est vrai qui compte
mais plutôt ce qu'on perçoit
comme tel, aux médias, un conte
une rumeur, pourvu qu'on ait peur,
pourvu qu'on sème la terreur..
La propagande est maitresse
des idées et des stresses...
Dans la jungle comme les villes
dominent les âmes viles
qui souvent à l'a ût d'une face
cachées, la peau d'une carcasse.
trompent à la faveur de la nuit
de l'ignorance et du bruit...
Aux animaux de la brousse
un âne dans la peau d'un lion
ainsi put donner une frousse,
des pétoches à tout un bataillon..

Photograph from the Internet © Guy Cayemite

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The ass in the lion's skin...

It is in a game
one baptizes a jew...
Human stupidity, the same..
It is not what it is true
that counts but what one perceives
as such, provide it deceives
and inspires fear...
Medias create this atmosphere...
Propagandas are mistresses
of ideas and stresses...
Our mind they juggle
hidden behind a face
playing the card of race
under cover of ignorance...
To the animals of the jungle
an ass in a lion's skin with poise
can give jitters and abhorrence
to the entire world only with noise...

© Guy Cayemite Photograph from the Internet

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Histoire d'Ève

Il y a des jours où mon coeur rutile
sous une cohorte d'étoiles brillantes,
Souriantes, qui s'étalent, heureuses,
orgueilleuses,
amoureuses et insolentes,
Des jours où l'amour fait l'amour
Avec mon coeur au grand jour,
Mais il y a des jours
où il se sent apatride,
Son pays est tout pâle,
tellement froid et si aride,
Il est si sombre et renfermé,
Qu'aucune lumière ne vient l'éclairer,
Rien, aucune goutte de miel,
Ne s'échappe de la corolle du soleil,
Pour lui prodiguer
la chaleur des beaux jours,
Et lui donner la douceur d'un bel amour,
Il y a des jours,
J'ai le mal d'amour,
Je connais ce mal qui rampe en moi
comme un serpent,
Qui charme mon âme,
et qui est heureux à mes dépens,

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Il y a des jours, où l'histoire d'Ève,
C'est Adam qui l'écrit et l'achève,
Dans son petit paradis,
En pomme, il se travestit,
Il me séduit,
Je m'assoupis,
Et il dérobe mon fruit,
Désarmée, je dis oui,
Charmée par sa ûte,
Ma pauvre âme culbute,
Il pénètre dans mon sein,
M'entraîne, me lie les mains,
Je suis en tenue d'Ève,
Voilà Adam qui crève
Mon coeur, et suce mon sang,
Et devient mon amant.

Photograph from the Internet © Claude Blard
Île de La Réunion

29 août 2016

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Rose noire © Georges Noel Coldold
Martinique

29 août 2016

Est-il plus doux mystère
Que cette rose noire
Qui s’éleva de terre
Pour re eurir l’espoir ?

De son parfum tenace
Elle embaume mes jours,
L’instant passe fugace
En son jardin d’amour.

Elle étire la nuit
En demeurant alerte
Pour dissiper l’ennui
De mes songes inertes.

Chacun de ses pétales
Est une langue douce
Qui sur mon corps étale
Des caresses de mousse.

Tamisant la lumière
Pour briller dans mes rêves,
Elle clôt mes paupières
Pour quelques heures
brèves.

Photograph from the Internet Plus belle qu’une aurore,
Elle chasse au matin
Les ombres sur mon corps
En douceurs de satin.

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Le roi du balisier © Georges Noel Coldold
Martinique
Sans doute aurait-il pu
Etre roi couronné 26 août 2016
Mais il n’était pas né
Pour être à ça tenu.

Petit enfant d’esclave,
Il gardait en pensée
Les récits du passé
Qui le rendirent brave.

Tel le vieux fromager,
Mêmes têtes chenues,
Il s’était maintenu
Hors des jours
étrangers.

L’héritage est sublime,
Sa plume a dû baigner
Au sang des balisiers,
Jusqu’en leur coeur
intime.

En sa barque mortuaire,
Loin du pays natal,
Loin du grand carnaval,
Est parti le grand frère.

Non, il n’est plus hélas !

Mais pourtant on dirait

Que se tient là tout Photograph from the Internet
près

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C’était le 11 septembre

De l’a ront magistral
Le souvenir demeure.
Ceux de l’axe du mal
Ont voulu que l’on
meure.

Pour frapper la erté
De la grande
Amérique,
Ils ont donc dérouté
Pour un dessein
tragique

Plusieurs aéronefs
Transformées en
missiles,
S’abattant sur le ef
Du colosse d’argile.

Photograph from the Internet Visant les Tours
jumelles,
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Ces jeunes fous de
Dieu,
Massacreurs
d’innocents,
Ont répandu le feu,
Les gravats et le sang.

Les tours se
rebâtissent
Mais les vies sont
perdues.
Les peuples
compatissent
Au drame inattendu.

Qui terrorisera
Ces lâches activistes?
Et puis où conduira
Leur soif absolutiste?

Faut-il pour une crotte
Brûler la cathédrale?
Au fond de la cocotte
Bout la guerre
mondiale.

© Georges Noel Coldold Photograph from the Internet
Martinique

11 septembre 2016

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