In Algiers, you don’t talk about ‘going swimming’
but ‘knocking off for a swim’.
I won’t insist.
People swim in the harbour
and then go rest on the buoys.
When you pass a buoy
where a pretty girl is sitting,
you shout to your friends,
‘I tell you it’s a seagull’.
These are healthy pleasures.
They certainly seem ideal to the young men.
A quote from Albert Camus found in this essay. Submitted by Rishi Dastidar.
Verbatim Poetry 