What Were You Thinking About ?

Dressed and then dressed again
what were you thinking about
undressed

I left my mink in the hallway
and we went into the desert
We lived on love and cold water
we loved each other in our poverty
we even ate our dirty linen in public
and on the black sand tablecloth
the sunlight spread its golden dishes
We loved each other in our poverty
we lived on love and cold water
my body your freehold property.

                        Translated from Jacques Prévert

from Selected and Unpublished, Poems 1965-2000. Published by Liverpool University Press 2007.