New calendar at the local bookshop:
Remembering Paris –
As if we had lost it,
As if it had disappeared,
As if the 150-year-old fingerprints
of Haussmann did not still cover the
Streets, Walls, and Parks.
Remembering Paris,
as if there was some uniform memory
12 black-and-white photos of the Eiffel Tower
were asking us to recall,
some magical moment
in the 2000 year history of the city
we all default to
when asked to remember.
Meanwhile,
the in-store radio was playing
a song popular when
I was in high school –
one that reminded me
of my first girlfriend before we were together,
of the garage band I played guitar for,
the days we skipped school to go to the beach.
Copyright Oren Peleg 2009
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