Buy my Sighs by Alain Bosquet.jpeg

This is my own translation of ‘Achetez mes soupirs’ by Alain Bosquet.
Better - more competent, more-poetic - translations are, undoubtedly, available!

I wrote it out rather hurriedly with my early-1980s Pelikan M400 in the ‘Brown Tortoiseshell’ finish.
The pen has a mono-colour 14k gold nib, marked ‘M’.

The ink is Pelikan Edelstein Smoky Quartz.

The paper is a sheet of 80gsm Rhodia ‘High-grade vellum’ from a No.18 bloc pad.

I wrote this right after writing out the poem in its original French, with my M800.

I have some tension in my shoulders today, and this has made my handwriting with this pen really awful - far worse than that with the larger-&-heavier M800.