The Loveliness of Paris (An Alternative Love Letter in Two Attractive Parts)

 

(i)

(Scene: the home of Dean & Janine Macsween of "Soylent Green", Milton Keynes, A.D. 2014.)

 

I've been and booked the tickets.

We're going to go to Paris

and in the event that you don't like it,

you can stick it up your 'Arris...

 

 

(ii)

(Six months later, in "The City of Lights"...)

 

I'm auditioning for the part

of the man you're going to marry,

as we carefully pick our way

through the dog dirty streets of Paree...

 

B.R. 20/05/2014