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Tonight's Poet Corner: Ooh La La

Ooh La La by Belinda Roddie Once, I laid eyes on a girl so beautiful, she stopped my breath, crammed it into a jar as it stayed suspended in mid-air, a perfect freeze frame for the cinema. Ideal for our tête-à-tête, our rendezvous, our secret ballet that we danced with pirouettes and plies - don't watch us, sil vous plait. Have you ever noticed that when you talk about love, you dunk your entire head in a basin full of French? All the beautiful whims and fancies of a Romance language that can't count from seventy to one hundred properly. The words make your head spin because you think the meaning of your message is stronger when you have vertigo. You don't consider the fact that you're just dizzy. Swooning over her as you sip your aperitif and adjust your chic beret and you imagine yourself in a film noir, and the femme fatale struts toward you, all haute couture and pretending to be an ingénue. She smokes, because of course she does -

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