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Frenchman on the Road

from Chai: Travel Poems by Marc Nair feat. Neon & Wonder

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The Frenchman on the Road to Sagada

Miguel leans across from me to photograph
the woman with chickens in wire-mesh frames,

grinning in the happiness that only comes
from a man who lives outside of his cages.

He has been travelling for seventeen months,
having done what needed to be done in Paris:

leaving houses for rent, a wife divorced,
a daughter who feeds off her absent papa.

While waiting at Bontoc for a jeepney,
we talk in fractured English. He twists off

the end of a long baguette, spreading pate
with a penknife. “Look at me,” he says,

“all my life is in my bag. If I stay, I stay;
if I go, I go wherever the road calls,

wherever I find a hot meal and a bed.
This is enough, to make me happy.

And you? What can you do,
just for one day in Sagada?”

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from Chai: Travel Poems, released April 20, 2012

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