<div class="line">I want you to know</div>
<div class="line">what a simple thing it is,</div>
<div class="line">what a plain, what a humdrum.</div>
<div class="line">I want you to know</div>
<div class="line">what a grey thing it is,</div>
<div class="line">what a gritty, what a numb.</div>
<div class="line">It is a golden thing, it is</div>
<div class="line">a loud, it is a fabulous flower—</div>
<div class="line">Oh it is a solid thing,</div>
<div class="line">a red thing, a steady;</div>
<div class="line">it is a quiet thing,</div>
<div class="line">a dense thing, a ruddy.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BonnellLove.mp3"></audio></figure>

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<p style="padding-left: 0px;">
I am taking a vacation on the left bank<br />
of your heart. I wear my beret<br />
slouched to the left, dangle a smoldering<br />
Gauloise carelessly (in the American manner)<br />
in my right hand, take long walks<br />
by the Seine of your feelings. Sometimes<br />
the river barely moves, I think, but it<br />
is always there, threading the bridges,<br />
changing from gloss to black<br />
in the variorum of sun and shadow.<br />
Book vendors are everywhere;<br />
I am in my element, and free.<br />
Such a place to stroll!<br />
It reminds me of the Paris,<br />
the sweet Montmartre we will<br />
never walk, mon homme,<br />
and I want to send you<br />
a postcard. The usual,<br />
and heartfelt at that:<br />
<em>Wish you were here—</em></p>


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September 4, 2014My Ordinary LovePaula Bonnell

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September 4, 2014My Ordinary LovePaula Bonnell

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