'SMALL TALK'
Oh, I don't like butchers' shop windows, yuck!
No, I like... umm... I don't know...
Yes, you know what I like for instance?
Opening a book months after the holidays
and finding sand between the pages.
Yeah!
And I also like:
eating the egg yolk on my plate in one big bite...
Eating ham straight from the wrapping paper...
Breaking off the corners of cookies.
I like...
pulling up my socks,
and peeing in the shower...
But I don't like...
I don't like pulling out nose hairs!!!!
You know what I like?
The innocence of kids.
I don't like to make love to a woman
and think about what's inside her...
I like the catalogue of ManuFrance,
the illustrated catastrophes in old encyclopedias.
The words: Trans-Europe-Express...
Trans-Orient-Express...
Trans-Siberia-Express...
I like the graffiti down my street.
But I don't like the collection of my cousin who lives in Gueunion:
nail and hair clippings,
beard shavings,
appendices and bottles of tears.
I'd like to be the witness of a scene ...
so enormous ...
that nobody would dare use it in a movie!
I like the Bois de Boulogne park on holidays.
I like the dog of Miss Mauricette.
Oh yes: I like...
trains getting close to each other, when they approach the station.
But I don't like to leave one pea all alone on my plate.
I don't like beards without moustaches.
I don't like the idea
that one sleeps one third of one's life
but I like the idea that after death,
it won't be worse than before we were born.
I like: Bibi Fricotin,
Razibu Zouzou,
and little Cérébos.
I like Richard Willmark's laugh.
And, umm...
I don't like... umm...
the drop of water that goes back up...
I like... umm... my dog when he shakes his fur dry....
but not when he wakes me up
by pushing his cold snout against my cheek!
When I was a kid, I always liked the smell of toasted bread in the morning,
of the plastic around my books when school started again,
and the little pots of white glue... at school...
I liked taking escalators in the wrong direction,
rolling out oilcloth,
and stepping on immaculate snow...
But I didn't like...
and still don't like:
the carcasses of Christmas trees on the pavement in January.
I like: going on holidays!!
You know what I bought this morning with my friends?
as a ten o'clock snack...
three baguettes, two camemberts, and two little Côtes du Rhone wines.
That set us back 23 francs each.
Yes, we don't always have holidays!
I like to turn on the radio
and hear the song I just felt like listening to.
But I don't like the end of television broadcasts...
especially when I'm not sleepy!!
But when I go out at night,
I like to turn my head,
and see the Eiffel Tower lights go out.
And last of all,
when I watch a movie in the cinema,
I like to see the words:
THE END