Christian Laborde is a writer. Last published book:
Bonheur,
Cairn Editions, 2021.
Green people don't like birds, especially cuckoos, which as a child I would see take off from Laloubère aerodrome.
I liked the sound of their engines.
I love the sound of an airplane engine in the sky over Laloubère, that of a tractor on the hillsides of Aureilhan, of an English motorbike on the empty road on a summer evening.
The cuckoos flew up and, sometimes, one of them, after having climbed very high, released parachutists into the azure.
They rushed towards the earth before opening their frilly webs, their motley corolla that the daisies gazed open-mouthed.
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All this is over, over, banned, by the green mayor of Poitiers, who now refuses to finance the flying clubs located in his town.
“
The air must no longer be part of children's dreams.
», She asserts, with the definitive assurance of these Greens elected in the last municipal elections thanks to a record abstention.
Elected officials who, the tricolor scarf passed, attack the Tour de France, the Patrouille de France and the Christmas trees.
Ecological issues are essential.
But green leaders are just camp guardians
Ecological issues are essential.
But green leaders are just camp guards.
Here they are who now want to put some order in the heads of the kids, decide what the kids will dream of, what they will no longer dream of.
Children, like adults, dream of "
air
", that is to say of flight, of wings.
Michel Leiris writes about our shoulders that they are the “
poles of the missing wings
”.
It only takes a cuckoo for them to grow back.
"These people are heavy"
But the Greens don't want our wings to grow back.
They want us on the ground, as heavy as them.
Because they are heavy.
There is nothing aerial about them, nothing "
choreographic
".
To be convinced, it is enough to see their shoes: flip-flops.
The airy, light man, the woman who dances and flies, like François Mauriac, choose the espadrille.
These people are heavy.
They are heavy and, for this reason, Véronique Jannot does not like them.
She says it in "
Aviator
", Alain Souchon's song: "
Me, I have no love for / heavy men / To pedestrians I say no / My heart remains deaf without passion / To without a plane / Aon aon, aon aon / The planes / At the Escadrille bar / I see the tendrils / And my heart leaps / The loops that these boys do / Aon, aon, aon…
”