PARIS TIME

Drowned out icons
from paintings
and murals
of Provencal
as exuberant as it says
and musical
than the great Pierre Boulez
in creative modernity,
needed inventions like the joy
of a living airy "La Mer"
in listening to Debussy,
not turbulent hours
of radical chic,
no more manifestos
or post- colonial inventions
or second rate Picasso's
for surreal imitations
rest no more
on a past provincial power,
let's try to catch a movie
with the Sixties directors
Truffaut or Clorizot
or explore the sea
with Jacques Cousteau
or read a memoir
by Renoir or Cocteau,
at least, in Paris time
let's's try to murder
a cheese or spinach croissant
put our feet up on the divan
and get a detective fiction
by Simenon or Indridason.