Baudelairian Concordances 045008 over sleeping Paris was streaming 089007 old Paris is no longer the shape of a city 089029 Paris changes! but nothing in my melancholy 091026 crossing from Paris the swarming scene 103027 And dark Paris while rubbing its eyes 105016 confused churning of enormous Paris 105016 blurry churning of lavish Paris 105014 and some filthy dung that Paris rejects 102000 Parisian dream 089033 also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me
Exaggerated Gestures Someone questions you and with great exaggeration you gesture as if a few words didn’t suffice to say: Mister you turn right twice left three times fifty meters further you turn in front of the corner pharmacy and there you are you can also say: take the metro that will save me from gesticulating when giving you directions, mister lost guy but maybe you’re the one who’s lost it when you’re accosted about a street you’ve never heard of you want to hide your ignorance so you make exaggerated gestures
Poor People On the bathroom wall in the Palais-Royal metro station you can read this statement to me it seems monumental utilization of this stall is strictly reserved for the financially underprivileged and for the infamous poor Eight feet seven feet Eight feet seven feet it’s a quatrain very Verlaine
Eiffel Tower in Winter Under the snow the tower pales upon the statistics fall flakes despite the vanity of the thing I seek to understand why why why all of this is not black, very black even a little gray
18-12 Is the co-owner coprophagous and the cupronickel a cupressina? You might as well say that cypresses come from Cyprus and that Capricorns consume nothing but capers or so you tell yourself as you walk from rue Capron to rue de Capri
That Day (monostic) At Marigny Square I acquired a Proust stamp.
Exile Among the saddest streets of Paris we can list the rue Villiers-de-l’Is- le-Adam, the rue Baudelaire (Charles) and the rue Henri-Beyle called Stendhal really they’ve not been showered with honor you might even begin to consider they’ve been given a dressing down being awarded the saddest streets in town
My Beautiful Paris Leprous houses choleric houses plague-ridden houses mucked-up buildings apartment buildings attacked by measles scarlet fever and syphilis cabins chlorotic cabins with scrofulous cabins with rickets constipated mansions huts hovels
Restoration Through laundering the walls, lovely smoke-blackened buildings exposed their smudge -d outlines the color of fudge and if all this confection were to dissolve who would be duped by the deception? the Japanese sightseer could not help but dekodak having nothing left to snap
Eros Advertising This Mother’s Day give her sexy stockings people are indignant but if mothers were no longer sexy there’d be nothing but only children alone with their Oedipus complex
A Problem of Cosmography While the sun slowly sets behind the Arc de Triomphe which was erected by that swashbuckling warmonger Napoleon it seems this celestial object swells and swells and swells and reddens as embers do, before going off to set near Vernon What becomes of it then? We have made an inquiry We have searched for the inn where this fat globe spends the night Where does it lay its head? Does it slumber heavily? Where is the hay it hits and in which it sleeps tight? The city is in the dark. Where is the lantern that made its way across the sky when we had no need of it seeing as how day emanated from the limitless horizon Yes, what befalls, down there, that globular entity that disappears at night into who knows what cranny whimsically leaving an echo of its glory
Advice for Tourists Near Boulevard Sébastopol you can’t miss the Acropolis Boulevard de la Chapelle the neighborhood of Whitechapel Boulevard Jourdan the Vatican Porte de Pantin the Kremlin near Quai de la Mégisserie perch Istanbul and Hagia Sofia church on rue de Beaune the Pentagon rue Saint-Marc Saint-Marc on rue de Traktir lies the Bridge of Sighs rue des Beaux-Arts Times Square avenue de la porte de Montrouge Place Rouge and if there is sudden precipitation the Café du Commerce will offer you a haven