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I’d Like to Live in Paris
I’d like to walk along the Seine
View Notre Dame de Paris
I’d like to live in the 5ème
Walk down the rue des Ecoles
Sit at la Place de la Contrescarpe
and sip chocolate
Shoo away the pigeons
that Hemingway stalked
for his stews as a poor man in Paris
I’d like to live in the 6ème
Walk in the Jardin du Luxembourg
Visit Gertrude Stein’s place
Sit among her visitors
Picasso’s great portrait of her on the wall
Alice with her brownies
about to serve us all
I’d like to live in the 16ème
or Passy as it was called
in the 19th century
Visit with Balzac in his house
where he hid from his creditors
Have him serve me a nightcap
of his famous coffee—
a thick brew made of ground beans
Then hear his stories toute la nuit
of Esther and Lucien de Rubempré
before I waltzed away
To stroll around Montmartre
with Salvador Dali
at dawn. Why not?
Or maybe I would join
Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin
wandering over bridges on the Seine
The sun rising slowly
on a cold, foggy day
My mind jazzed with Balzac’s coffee
till I see Notre Dame de Paris
And bow my head