...Ma semblable, ma soeur

[Estoy impresionada, no todos los días se puede ver a un poeta declamar. Pero es que Mark Grist es medio poeta medio rapero, si es que pueden separarse ambos términos]

“So, what do you go for in a girl?”
He crows, lifting a lager to his lips
Gestures where his mate sits
Downs his glass
“He prefers tits,
I prefer arse.
What do you go for in a girl?”

I don’t feel comfortable
The air left the room a long time ago
All eyes are on me
Well, if you must know
I like a girl who reads
Yeah. Reads.

I’m not trying to call you a chauvinist
Cos I know you’re not alone in this
but… I want a girl who reads
Who needs the written word
And uses the added vocabulary
She gleans from novels and poetry
To hold lively conversation
In a range of social situations

I want a girl who reads
Who’s heart bleeds at the words of Graham Greene
Or even Heat magazine
Who’ll tie back her hair while reading Jane Eyre
and goes cover to cover
with each Waterstones three for two offer
but I want a girl who doesn’t stop there

I want a girl who reads
Who feeds her addiction for fiction
With unusual poems and plays
That she hunts out in crooked bookshops
for days and days and days
She’ll sit addicted at breakfast,
Soaking up the back of the Cornflakes box
And the information she gets from what she reads
makes her a total fox
Cos she’s interesting & unique
And her theories make me go weak at the knees

I want a girl who reads

A girl who’s eyes will analyze
The menu over dinner
Who’ll use what she learns to kick my ass in arguments
so she always ends the winner
But she’ll still be sweet and she’d still be flirty
Cos she loves the classics and the classics are pretty dirty
So late at night she’d always have me in a stupor
As she paraphrases the raunchier moments
from the works of Jilly Cooper

See, some guys prefer arses
Some prefer tits
And I’m not saying that I don’t like those bits
But what’s more important
What supersedes for me
Is a girl a with passion, wit and dreams
So I want a girl who reads.

[Mark Grist, I Want a Girl who Reads]

[Marilyn en su biblioteca, que terminó subastada, como todas sus otras cosas]