Attention, Monsieur! I am in Paris.

AU REVOIR BY SHANNON MARIE KELLY 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 27

Attention, Monsieur! I am in Paris

Spilling gin, clinking cracked porcelain teacups,

With café connoisseurs, blowing in and out,

Of doors filled with Hemingway.

I wrap my hands around bars in asylums

With Van Gogh, wrap my teeth around ankles,

Wrap canvas jackets around hysterics, hissing, spittin…