Cocksucker
Excerpts from Queues
by Nicholas Giguère (Montréal, Hamac, 2017)
Translated from the French by Pierre-Luc Landry
Originally published by Québec Reads
2018
This text is an excerpt from Nicholas Giguère’s Queues (Hamac, 2017). I translated pages 54 to 65 from the original French. The target audience of Québec Reads, the website where this excerpt was published, mainly consists of English-speaking Canadians. I chose not to localize the text or adapt the cultural references for this draft. I replaced a few stores names by the generic designation, for example, but I chose not to change the proper nouns of the public figures mentioned by the poet.
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