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Oh Paris, your pastry is perfect. I\u2019ll eat you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Paris, you kept me up until 3am and made me shy on the phone. You laid a blanket in the park and spread it with saucisson sec and fromages qui puent and we drank Champagne at two in the afternoon on your big day. Paris, I watched the eight o\u2019clock news <\/a>alone in your apartment and ate chaussons aux pommes in line at the movies, and I bought your small modern packages delivered by the small trucks that block your ancient streets.<\/p>\n

Oh Paris, you gave me skirts with rabbit-fur trim and danger-sexy designer bags on sale. You told me I looked like Cleopatra. You said j\u2019ai envie de te faire l’<\/em>amour<\/em> and you brought me croissants in the morning, and oh Paris, you looked away when I walked your streets red-eyed, holding a wad of Kleenex. You made me say stupid things and stay too long and we were so lonely together<\/strong>, you and I.<\/p>\n

Paris, now you\u2019re making me write like Allen Ginsberg in “America.”
Oh Paris, Sundays in Seattle aren\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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