Ces petit riens [English translation]

It's better to think of nothing

than not to thing at all,

nothing is already,

nothing is already not nothing;

one remembers of nothing

and given that we forget all

nothing is much better

nothing is much better than all

It's better to think of nothing

than to think of you;

that's worth nothing to me,

that's worth nothing at all to me,

as if there was nothing

to it I think of all

these little nothings

that came to me from you

if it were three times nothing,

three times nothing between us,

evidently

that doesn't make much,

it's these little nothings

that I've put end to end,

these little nothings

that came to me from you

It's better to cry for nothing

than to laugh at all things,

crying for a nothing

is already not a nothing,

but you, you don't have nothing

in your heart and I admit

I envy you

I hold this against you pretty much

It's these little nothings

that came to me from you

Do you want them?

Here you are! What's there to want?

Me I want nothing

in the world, nothing yours,

to be with you

I should be half crazy