on a steep historic butte
with fresh strawberry tart
unwrapped nudes,
excited affairs of the heart
underneath a fine Parisian sky
watched i
seated outside my busy sidewalk cafe
wondering what people say
by the walls of the ancient Sorbonne
in their studious Latin tongue.
nearby, the spry
Agile Rabbit
sitting on his vineyard hill
drinking cheap local swill
with a painterly friend of mine
asked Joyce if he really had a choice
or was it just a rumor
about the invisibility cloak?
Perhaps another drunken joke
about a man stuck inside his wall:
a shadow of a ghost before his eventual downfall?
there's more that i should say:
i recently talked with Claude Monet
about his first impressionist flowers brush-stroked every single hour
until 24 had been made
he said he was adequately paid.
i sipped my warm cafe au lait
wishing this Paris memory would stay and stay!
but a wind and hard rain came up abruptly
and took all the dryness away.
Montmartre
on a cobbled July afternoon
in the shade
stirring with an unfashionable plastic spoon
i the tourist began to consume
a Lebanese grape
and a sweet pepper with a stem shaped like the quarter moon.
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