Paris Pt. 2

sitting in cafes and writing in my journal in le marais and saint-germain-des-pres, watching the fireworks over the eiffel tower on bastille day, wandering through the beautiful musee d’orsay listening to dizzy gillespie, vintage shopping in montmartre and le marais and buying from the kilo shops who sell their clothes by weight, visiting shakespeare and company again and again, the city lights sticker on the shelf of the beat section, the smell of the lavender in the window of the library, the old piano upstatirs, the creaky door to the poetry section and all the little notes left and collected, visiting two apartments that hemingway used to live in in the latin quarter and having lunch in the square between them, wandering down rue mouffetard, the fragonard perfume museum, visiting the fantastic galerie de paleontologie and les grandes serres in the jardin des plantes, a wonderful day at disneyland going on all the rollercoasters and eating mickey mouse shaped madelines, the beautiful palais garnier opera house, buying a cinnamon & apple candle and four types of tea and cooking soup in my little apartment, watching the eiffel tower glittering at night time, getting lost in the louvre listening to lead belly, kissing sartre’s grave in montparnasse cemetery, sitting in the sun and reading by st martin’s canal with everyone on their lunch break.

"such was the paris of our youth, the days when we were very poor and very happy"