Ma Semaine En Ville

Monday was a weird day because, I knew it was the beginning of the week because in my mind, Monday is the first day of the week and yet I felt this incredible sorrow because I knew it was time to go home and I would miss the people I saw and talk to every day. You can say, "oh I'll Facebook you" or "oh I'll email you" but it's not the same. It would never be the same. It reminded me of a poem I wrote the first week I was here. I will share on Facebook aussi.

Ma Semaine en Ville

Stone  buildings of frozen cream
Cobble stone streets made from criss-crossed dreams
Bouncing umbrellas or powerful lunettes
Sandwiches with chicken in baguettes
Old history nods her head at thee
While being overrun with modern technology.
Critics are there, here, left and right
But the splendor of the beauty of the night
Is without contest of anything I've ever seen
And when you leave the city, "everything's so fucking green."*

Great authors and painters gathered here, to this very place
Inspiration not only comes to you, it hits you in the face
One day in the future I will return but perhaps at a slower pace.

I may choke on the smoke but
Who can breathe in such a beautiful town?
I shall not be too taken in, for want of pickpockets
So my admiration shall be quickly boxed and I will lock it**

Days go by too quickly
And there's still too much to see
I can't sit and wait patiently
I must go out and see everytheen!***

Fin.


*"Everything's so fucking green" is a reference from a British movie called, Death at A Funeral. And so, in Ireland (2011), I found myself saying it many times and when we went onto the bus the first time for the first weekend, not the three day one but the one before, mais I don't remember, I wrote this poem on the bus and I could see was: green, house, green, wall with grattifi, green, oh look a pedestrian bridge, green, green, green so I thought it was fitting.

**I know Pickpocket and lock didn't rhyme so I added it and what I truly wanted to say was, that here in Paris, it's a city but it has many pickpocket and I knew this because of the French film, Pickpocket about this man and he has a girlfriend, la, la, la, eh, eh, eh. but anyway, when you see something like, a beautiful dog (je ne sais pas pourquoi je went straight to chien but oh well), or you're at a monument taking photos, you have to be weary of everyone around you so you go "Ooh" and then walk quickly. "Ooh" and snap a quick picture and leave quickly. I mean some areas have less pickpockets than others, like anywhere.

***THere is no way to make Patiently and Everything rhyme. So, I use kind of an odd spelling here to make what is known as a slant rhyme and if you don't know what a slant rhyme is, I suggest... I don't want to be mean so I shall spare the snippiness for now but if you don't know what it is, ask your teacher or go to Wikipedia and look up "half rhymes" it should be there. Ouais, j'aime Wikipedia.