DYLAN St. Denis Blog Post no.3

They have their faces on election campaign posters
I must stay invisible
I stop at the red light
They begin working
For the right to work
I must take a day off from work
I am a communist
I live in a big beautiful house on an expensive street
I am a Muslim
If I'd grown up in Poland I would be a Catholic
For a regularized work permit
I must be dying of a terrible illness
In the raid against the dangerous terrorists
The police shot at one another with thousands of bullets
I spend years carefully preparing all of my documents
then I hand them over to a stranger and never see them again
Protecting the citizens of St.Denis from terror
I pointed my gun at a child who was running towards me
I was shot by the police (who thought I was a terrorist)
I spent 6 hours bleeding in my bathroom because I was in shock
I work in St.Denis
I'd rather commute 1hr40mins each way than live here
I avoid the police in town because I have no papers
They protect me when I march against the fact that I have no papers
For a new law to pass in my favour
I must break the law and occupy
St.Denis is the birthplace of the future of French Culture
French Culture is afraid of what is new
I feel safer as a homosexual transvestite in St.Denis
Than I did as a homosexual transvestite in Le Marais