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CBR04:______futur car c ke reve pour l'instant!
Be1819:______BONSOIR
American Tourist:__Hello everybody. How ya doing ?
DOTgTIME:__ok pas le permis ou pas la moto?
CoccoFlo:____Pas la moto
American Tourist:__You know, I’ve been wanting go to Paris for years. I hear
_________________it’s very expensive now
H CBRxx:_____faut j'attende 21 ans.............pour eviter la ____limitation
American Tourist:__Are you guys still on the metric system?
Be1819:______si personne ne veut me repondre
DOTgTIME:__ca va alors c'est pas le plus facile a passer le permis
Be1819:______c pas sympa
American Tourist:__Hello! Hmm, no reply. You know you French aren’t famous
_________________for hospitality. My brother says the French don’t even like the
_________________French
Bselev6:_____vas-y parle! be
DOTgTIME:__mais si tu l'a
American Tourist:__perfect
Be1819:______ouai mais je vais avoir du mal la
American Tourist:__I hear you put the Mona Lisa in a box to protect from
_________________Terrorist. I’ve got to see that!
Bselev6:_____?
Be1819:______vu que je cerne pas le sujet
CoccoFlo:____Et la FAZER qu'est ce que vou en pensés?
Bselev6:_____c'est sûr!
American Tourist:__ How much one croissant? Do you take American Express?
Bselev6:_____12
Be1819:______bon et bien
Be1819:______voila
H CBRxx:_____bof
Bselev6:_____never mind
American Tourist:__Before I leave I’ve got to see Montparnesse, I hear it’s real
_________________quaint
DJ TRIP 2:___VIVE LES POISSONS ROUGES !!!!!!
H CBRxx:_____j'prefere la R1 ou la Blackbird
CoccoFlo:____HORNET alors
CBR04:______HCB courrier!
Bselev6:_____chesterfield
H CBRxx:_____NON j'ai pas.......enfin
American Tourist:__ Hmm, now that's an interesting looking bookstore! But how
_________________Come all the books are in French?
DOTgTIME:__c ta moto en foto ... ho la la...
CBR04:______enfin??
Bselev6:_____all right
Notsuko007:__ho HCB TU FAIT LA GUEULE??????
American Tourist:__My feet hurt. What a lovely fountain. I think I’ll sit right here
________________and watch the pigeons. I wonder if the pigeons speak French.
________________Hey, the Arc de Triomphe is supposed to be around her
________________somewhere? I’ve got to remember to get one of those little
________________Eiffel Towers to bring home to my son. Maybe a couple of
________________French postcards for me. Ha, ha
CBR04:______salut not!
H CBRxx:_____non non attend 5 m svp
American Tourist:__Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Gide, Villon, Hugo, Maurice
_________________Chevalier....
Bselev6:_____no, chesterfield cafe
Notsuko007:__salut salut tout le monde
DaBoyz2482:__salut
CoccoFlo:____Qu'est ce que tu conseil pour débuter?
American Tourist:__Of course I’ve heard of Proust. What do ya think I’m stupid?
_________________Just because I’m American doesn’t mean I’m superficial?
H CBRxx:_____MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEE REVOICI
H CBRxx:_____SALUT NOT
Bselev6:_____...
American Tourist:__ Breton, Eluard, Valery, Appolinaire, Jacques Cousteau...
DaBoyz2482:__fin did sis iddjk kssf iff
Bselev6:_____voltaire
American Tourist:__After 100 years don’t you think we’ve seen enough Impressionism?
CBR04:______125 dtmx
American Tourist:__yes, Voltaire, I heard of him, he wrote "Candy", right? No,
_________________that was "Candide". No, Nabakov wrote "Candide", no, wait,
_________________that was "Lolita"
H CBRxx:_____allo not???
Bselev6:_____good bye everybody!
Notsuko007:__salut amigo ça roule man??
American Tourist:__Afterall, I mean, how long can you look at a bunch of water
_________________lilies?
Bselev6:_____over
American Tourist:__And Picasso, enough already, my god, he wasn’t even French!
H CBRxx:_____ouai ca gaz.........c'est genial
H CBRxx:_____la forme
H CBRxx:_____et toi ?
Bselev6:_____en forme de quoi ?
Notsuko007:__depuis le temps je commencer a me __dire................
H CBRxx:_____(j'suis en week end jusq mardi
CoccoFlo:____A partir de 500/600cm3
CBR04:______600 cbr
American Tourist:__I’m sure sooner or later one of you will be polite enough to talk
_________________to me. It’s not polite, you know, to ignore a guest. But then
_________________again, it’s not like you actually invited me here
Notsuko007:__p'tit salopard
CoccoFlo:_Plutôt d'accord
American Tourist:__I love Paris, everybody talking French, eating cheese and art
_________________and stuff. So romantic. I think I want to move here
CoccoFlo:____Mais un peu cher
CBR04:______tu roule sur koi?
American Tourist:__Maybe I’ll come back when the dollar is stronger
Calu13:______ma polis
H CBRxx:_____HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH, tu bosse pas ___demain c'est ferié
Calu13:______mal polis
Notsuko007:__bin moi toujours boulot boulot boulot a donf
Notsuko007:__et si je bosse
American Tourist:__Well, got to go now. I’m not sure why you don’t want to talk to
_________________me. Oh well, guess I’ll go back home and take French lessons
CoccoFlo:____Pour l'instant j'suis sur 4 roues mais j'ais le __permis en poche
H CBRxx:_____m^me demain !?!?!?!? a putain c'est __affreux............
American Tourist:__ And look, no matter what people say about you French,
_________________I, for one love ya. Oh yeah, bon soir everybody!

Michael Rothenberg



Michael Rothenberg lives in Pacifica, California. He is a widely-published poet, and the editor and publisher of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else (http://www.bigbridge.org). He recently edited Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen, due out with Penguin Putnam, Inc., in 1999.