Original title: Parijs 1953 - from: Wat boven kwam – 2006 – Uitgeverij
De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam.
Paris 1953
She was from Georgia.
It was in Paris. Where back then
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| Louis Th. Lehmann [1920-2012] |
many writers still believed
that novels had to be set:
that was more literary!
We walked down
from Rue Gay-Lussac
where in our local pub,
a black American,
Aaron Bridges, played piano.
We descended, parallel
to boulevard Saint-Michel,
to rue de la Huchette
where her hotel was.
She was barefoot,
and halfway down her calves
hung the frayed edges
of the first cut-off jeans
I'd ever seen.
I sang: "Put your shoes on, Lucy,
don't you know you're in the city?"
She said: "That's what they always
sing to me at home."
that novels had to be set:
that was more literary!
We walked down
from Rue Gay-Lussac
where in our local pub,
a black American,
Aaron Bridges, played piano.
We descended, parallel
to boulevard Saint-Michel,
to rue de la Huchette
where her hotel was.
She was barefoot,
and halfway down her calves
hung the frayed edges
of the first cut-off jeans
I'd ever seen.
I sang: "Put your shoes on, Lucy,
don't you know you're in the city?"
She said: "That's what they always
sing to me at home."
