Lycée français Charlemagne | Pointe Noire - Congo | Numéro 2003
The Taxpayer, Mars and Earth.
 The taxpayer passionately fell in love with Mars and left Earth riding a bicycle loaded with aspirin tablets. But Earth followed him, shouting his name. She implored him to come back. But he had made up his mind to leave Earth for good. Mars was waiting for him. The cries of Earth became so unbearable that the taxpayer had to take a double dose of aspirin. He was indifferent to these cries as he was determined to go and meet Mars. Veiled in glaring red light, Mars was so beautiful, so marvellous…
During the trip to Mars, the taxpayer's bicycle broke down and he could not continue. He used the bubble-gum that he was chewing to repair the rubber. He was in a great hurry. He continued his travel courageously until he saw a strange and high mountain in front of him ; so he stopped his bicycle. He looked at his Swatch and realized that he had already left Earth for two days. Suddenly, he held his bicycle in his hands and tried to consider if he couldn't find another way to climb the mountain. But it was so hard that the taxpayer decided to look for another route . He dropped his bicycle and started to climb the mountain on foot. At the top, he could see Mars : his heart beat very hard. All of a sudden, he heard Earth's cries coming from behind him… There she was running up the mountain with a gun. The taxpayer had no way to escape. He saw his life running away in the sky… After a moment's hesitation, he decided to fight for his life. He took out the little revolver he always carried with him and started to shoot at Earth who was really becoming a threat…  As she finally reached the place where he was standing, she found herself in front of a hole, more sombre than absolute darkness. He shot once more and all his problems disappeared as Earth was falling down.
After a short while, the taxpayer began laughing : "Ha, ha, ha, ha !!! So I have to face a new world now." However, overexcited by his newly-found happiness, he could not hear Earth's father, Sun, coming up behind him. Before the taxpayer could turn his head, he was shot in the back. Believing that he had killed the taxpayer, Sun tried to go back where he belonged, but a huge flash of light shone over his head. It was the taxpayer, screaming in the middle of a fireplace like a phoenix coming back from his ashes : "What the fuck… ?!" The taxpayer's passion was so hot and he had suffered so much to reach Mars that he couldn't die like that : his screams showed how angry he was… When the taxpayer opened his eyes again, he saw Sun's corpse turned into a heap of burned flesh and beside him he saw his world of chaos and craziness,as he had always wanted it to be. Then he stood up again and walked on… Mars was offered to him : space without an ounce of civilization… Another world to create, another world to destroy, another world to be a god in… Ce texte écrit en langue anglaise est de : Lyonide Attanda, Christelle Bassalé, Amour Bikouta, Gaël Garand, Jewed Kaba, Yoann Kaya, Emilie Le Scrill, Erwan Lopez, Perrine Martyris, Christelle Mbani, Patrick Mombo, Audrey Moura, Sina Ramechfar, Audrey Saubat-Lalanne, Marie Tuffigo, Camille Angely, Jedrick Bosseko, Lucille Bounghou, Enowe Gomez-Gnali, Jean-Luc Herbulot, Clément Lançois, Eléna Taty-Poaty, Elizabeth Clémente, Katia De Souza, Cendra Goma, Edmond-Gilles Kolyardo et Thomas Tranchepain. |