So then I sat down upon this low wooden chair And looked around myself at this small room I thought I could recognise. And yet which today seems suddenly foreign Suddenly strange, Vaguely hostile As though once upon another day, yesterday There one day something occurred which did not concern me But which would one day, tomorrow Later change my whole life Upsetting my destiny by tangling up its strings Until then so smooth so reasonably strung between my memories My aspirations, and my goals, between oblivion and fear Between true love and true love lost Just like one of those old-fashioned curses That used to make me laugh When it would happen at the perfect time to add a bit of mystery To the trite intrigue of one of those horror films that I loved But never would I have thought that one of them would be Or could be suddenly so tangibly right here in this room Where nothing, nothing can nothing must ever be achieved And where nonetheless I believed I could perceive the crab A medallion on the carpet, Chandelier, hanging right over my head and just about to fall And then something indescribable walking silently The way some lunatic would Along my walls, my four grey walls.