feuilleton 13: poem

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

poem

by corinne delmonico

illustrations by konrad kraus

how dreary life is!

after the lights are turned off
in the museum
after a long day

of sipping tea
and eating chocolate torte

with raspberry icing
to the echo of clicking heels

how dreary the world is
with the rain falling
in puddles

outside the pet shop
and the sad lizard

o the sad lizard!

behind the rain-streaked window
of the pet shop

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from wikipedia: "Feuilleton (French pronunciation: [fœjtɔ̃]; a diminutive of French: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles. The feuilleton may be described as a "talk of the town",^[1] and a contemporary English-language example of the form is the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker.^[2]

In English newspapers, the term "feuilleton" instead came to refer to an installment of a serial story printed in one part of a newspaper. The genre of the feuilleton in its French sense was eventually included in English newspapers, but was not referred to as a feuilleton.

In contemporary French, feuilleton takes on the definition of "soap opera," specifically ones aired for television."