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French Lessons

from Births, Deaths and Marriages by Heist

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In the spirit of adventure, you're a braver soul than me
so you enrolled yourself in night-school
and took French lessons to see
New sights, unbroken horizons, dark nights.
Still life, in pointillist colour, half light

If we could turn the clock back now I don't know if you
would return, but if the past were not imperfect
there'd be nothing we could learn.
Show me, water lillies and warm seas. As rain sweeps
the Tuilerie gardens, a Cezanne sketch on Gitane cartons.

In ancient/other times, the language/lyric of love flowed line by line
now I find I search for those words we left behind,
Vainly, vainly...

Now for casual repartee I leave the phrasebook on the
shelf and though I think I've grasped the grammar,
I'm a stranger to myself.
Lately, i'm lost in translation, lately.
Save me, from conditional clauses, hopeless causes,
pregnant pauses...

Dans la foret des tristesses mes mots sont perdu,
comme l'amour.
Dans l'apres-midi de nos coeurs, je les chercherai encore.
je les trouverai encore.

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from Births, Deaths and Marriages, released October 29, 2022

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