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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFr2Fh66zs this is the most impressive expression of the poetic I've seen in a long time. not only the evocative, beautifully imagistic lyrics but the absolute, tragic energy Brel puts into the song itself. it's absolutely magical. I couldn't help but learn the song (and some simple chords on the guitar to go with it, with my supermeager amateur ['amoureuse'] skills); it's wonderful to put some emotional energy into something that poetic which is yet not poetry as I write it. in fact, it was thanks to this little crossover into the poetic in lyric/music that I wrote my first poem in a long while, only the second this side of the new year. Viktor Shklovsky said that the foremost purpose of poetic imagery is the "reinforcing of impressions"; this is certainly what Brel succeeds at. also, for good measure and because art & poetry need not be serious all the time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BFOyn8K7pg&NR=1 KS