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Pauline Picot (born 1990) is a French playwright and poet. Her texts have been published since 2012 (by Quartett Éditions, Les Éclairs Éditions), and some of them were translated to Georgian by Bachana Chabradzé for magazines Indigo (2017) and Teatri (2019). Her writing tackles various subjects such as desire, social injunctions, psychic distress, the body and the feminine. Her latest play, Votre âme sœur est peut-être dans cette forêt [Your soulmate might be in these woods] (2022), was staged at the Théâtre du Rond-Point (Paris) in February 2023. As for her poetry, it can be read in specialized magazines (Gustave; Recours au poème; Carabosse) or on social media. She is also a performance artist. Since 2019, she has been creating several series of performances documented by photographs, which question the imperative of competition and the loneliness of everyday life. Her latest cycle, PLEUREUSE, began in January 2023. Finally, Pauline Picot is a PhD graduate in Theatre Studies, and teaches in various French Universities.
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My God, it might just be
That no bomb explodes
In my street today
And tears my flesh to pieces
That no one kills my father
That one tortures my mother
My God, it might just be
That I don't live in Kharkiv
That I don't live in Israelstine
That I don't live in a shelter
And that I live, in fact, in total comfort
My god, I might have to
Live with this violent stroke of luck
And embrace with all my body, with all my heart
With all that is in me
The responsibility of joy
translated by the author