Sylvie Hill

The Gentle Art of Ignoring On your marks! Get set! Ready? GO! Race to ignore the traffic sounds Beneath, in the streets and reach toward The landscape beyond, fight to see trees Or squint and see the heritage houses covered in ivy! It is not a gentle art to “ignore”: It is VIOLENT and takes […]

I Have No Dreams For Sale (Only For Sharing) No family? No baby? 40? Easy: no one stood by me. In my family, not my Father Sister, judges; ignored by Mother I’m supposed to Love you? Why bother… Fixations? Preoccupations? Yes! Easy: indeed, I was obsessed. Thought the Muses hotter Liked how I profited I’m […]

The Real Villain I say one funny thing about a pick-up line He gets mad, says: “I don’t tell you mine!” In person, I keep it platonic. He spends the time telling me how he likes it. I post news of having published a book of sexy stories He starts Tweeting that I must be […]

Annexed* That’s right: hide that bald man’s eyes! Prepare to take him away now: He’s the culprit but don’t tell anyone his name. You will know him from the trail of his women The ones he rates as sevens Unless they’ve got great tits, then it’s 8.9 and sometimes 11. I’ve been annexed, taken over […]

It’s Time I’ve been making progress. Been driving through the city lights. Burning up so many goddamn tires Leaving them at the dead-end streets On fire. But I keep on trucking. Until tonight. Feeling, just feeling Hormonal, not sentimental. Pregnant (yea) with emotion. Godammnit, I was looking for your rage Feeling in a blue lake […]

Tempest Yes, the goddamn storms will rage, man! Will you fight or take flight? Will you man up and see the light Or sulk like a fucking little child? Yes, the times will be tough, man! You’ll lose the girl and gain A new one losing her again Because of your memory of the old […]

By Nature And Not Commodity And when I needed toilet paper I crumpled up white Eddy Made it softer and soaked it in thunderstorm humidity Dried and it and it was ready. And when I needed underwear I wore some panty liners When they ran out, turned my undies inside out Or washed them in […]

Une Coque Héroïque: Quelle Chicane – c’est dûr! I Serge Gainsbourg’s concept album About a Lolita type called Melody Nelson According to the writer, Darran Anderson Was a lament, a forecast of what he knew would happen. It was a premature goodbye to Jane Birkin After he was let go by Brigitte Bardot He knew […]

Cairo the Skater Stoner Cairo’s fucked off the institutions again Said he’d burn the motherfucker down That one prof who flunked him From a 50 to a zero Fuck the establishment! He’s on a mission, shitting his britches Sick with a bug and bad nutrition Gone south on a mission To sell CDs Buy a […]

NOTHING PERSONAL It’s OK! I know why I came! I didn’t know this in the land of the Swiss When an old Egyptian boyfriend Invited me to Switzerland To meet his family and travel to Paris For a holiday for two weeks in spring. I did all the planning. He did nothing for my birthday […]