Audience divided in 3 groups and say out loud: 1) poire" 2)pomme" and "courgette" 3) when directed.
(Explain that these are the forms on new lightbulbs today.
Intro:
The poet, following an electrician guide, goes high and low, a hellish journey with tense emotions, seeking
the elusive lightbulb with 1200 lumens.
A second electrician, dressed in red, tells him that he can use this 3400 lumens bulb with a dimmer, to
variate the frequency
If he changes Schneider circuit breakers to Holms
Which
Doubling input roaming voltage frequency
and lowering the Amps
Can supersede the oncoming flickering glare
Like that of a suspicious silhouette of a lonely car on the road
Moving slowly at night as a scantily dressed lady impatiently waits at
A dark bus stop, stares fixedly at the blaring headlights.
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"But why 1200 lumens?" Wonders the electrician dressed in white.
"A Lightbulb Tourist
I Am" Insists the Poet,
"This is a World of Sinners and Dimmers
I have gone from store to store, from country to country, seeking
Lumens, dimmers, variators -because the light has to be subtle
And 3600 Lumens in the form of a
1) POIRE 2)APPLE 3) COURGETTE" (Audience repeats 3 times)
(Why make a bulb like a courgette?) Is too much!"
"Relax", said the electrician, "If not after some weeks you too shall be
Flickering
And Snickering
Talking like a film noir detective
Having lost trace of that one Lightbulb that
Got away."
"Got away? Was it too disguised as a Tourist?" asked the Poet
"But I saw it, I had it in my own hands!"
And why a 1) POIRE? (Audience says Poire)
Poet: "It's rounded like Babar,
It could be in a Church, a Museum
Lighting up a painting that leaves
Tourists feinting.
(Poet's voice starts to break up like a flickering lightbulb)
But why are you fading?" The Poet turns towards the electrician,
"I dreamt I saw Cookie Monster... his cookies all on the floor!"
"You're fa-fading, those wires, is that the di-dimmer?
"The cookies were crushed, it was at the Vatican."
Can you he-hear the Po-Pope singing "Urbi et Orbi?"
Do-don't didn'tay fi-find 'dose cookies in the dark?
"Indulgentiam, absolutionem, et remissionem ominum peccatorum vestrorum, spatium verae et fructuossae paenitentiaeeee"
In the Da-da-dark? Did ya see? Did ya hear? It's flickering in da-da-dark!"
"I lost the si-si-signal
POIRE! APPLE! Courgette! (Audience 1,2,3)
CLOSING Narrator:
As you can see, no Angel came to the rescue, no Angel could anti-flicker those lumens made to act in an irrational way.
And so I ask you a moment of silence for all Circuit Breakers, fuses, Sinners and Dimmers.
(Je vous demande une moment de silence pour tous disjoncteurs et fusibles, des pêcheurs et variateurs.)
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