In Paris with You

In Paris with You Poem - James Fenton

Don’t talk to me of love. I’ve had an earful
And I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two.
I’m one of your talking wounded.
I’m a hostage. I’m marooned.
But I’m in Paris with you.

Yes I’m angry at the way I’ve been bamboozled
And resentful at the mess that I’ve been through.
I admit I’m on the rebound
And I don’t care where are we bound.
I’m in Paris with you.

    Do you mind if we do not go to the Louvre,
    If we say sod off to sodding Notre Dame
    If we skip the Champs Elysées
    And remain here in this sleazy
    Old hotel room
    Doing this or that
    To what and whom
    Learning who you are,
    Learning what I am.

Don’t talk to me of love. Let’s talk of Paris,
The little bit of Paris in our view.
There’s that crack across the ceiling

And the hotel walls are peeling
And I’m in Paris with you.

Don’t talk to me of love. Let’s talk of Paris.
I’m in Paris with the slightest thing you do.
I’m in Paris with your eyes, your mouth,
I’m in Paris with. . . all points south.
Am I embarrassing you?
I’m in Paris with you.

— James Fenton

Chloë Regen

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She has apprenticed under two indigenous medicine people for more than a decade, is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner, and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway where she spent four years in the Arctic circle, researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

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