It’s 4 in the morning I get up fully dressed In my hand a little bar of soap Someone I love sent me I go to wash up I emerge from the hole we sleep in I feel terrific And happy to be able to wash up for the first time in three days Then all clean I go get a shave After that I blend in sky-blue with my blue uniform until night falls and it’s a very sweet pleasure To say no more about anything I do it’s an invisible being doing it And buttoned up and all blue now blended into the sky I disappear   (translated from the French by Ron Padgett)