Marcia Baïla [English translation]

Marcia dances both on satin and on rayon

With expanded polystyrene down at her feet

Marcia dances with her legs

As sharp as cleavers

Two arrows inspiring new ideas

And feelings

Marcia is skinny

As beautiful on the stage as she is in life

Seeing her dance turns me on

Moretto, how huge is your mouth

When you smile, and when you laugh

I laugh too. You love life so much,

What is this cold that we feel in you?

But it's death that murdered you, Marcia!

It's death that consumed you Marcia

It's the cancer that got you under the arm

Now, you are ashes, ashes

Death is like an impossible thing

And even you, as strong as a rocket,

And even you, who are life itself Marcia,

Death still took you !

Marcia can dance the Chinese way

Warmth in the shoulder movements

Her flat shadows looking like an inca hieroglyph

From the opera

With her head she also dances very well

And her face dances along

She looked for new ways

And found them

She is that grasshopper

The lovesick mermaid

The dancer wearing flannel

Or plain cardboard

Moretto, how huge is your mouth

When you smile, and when you laugh

I laugh too. You love life so much,

What is this cold that we feel in you?

But it's death that murdered you, Marcia!

It's death that consumed you Marcia

It's the cancer that got you under the arm

Now, you are ashes, ashes

Death is like an impossible thing

And even you, as strong as a rocket,

And even you, who are life itself Marcia,

Death still took you !

Marcia...