Life on Poires?

Car & Poire by Pascale Aug 2017
Ink and watercolour on recycled table-mat
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Mogette La Deux-Chevaux Coquette

A Citroën you see

Rolled out of  Lavallois-Perret

In July seventy-three

And just last week Mogette she drove

From her home town near Nantes

Via lavender and olive groves

To blue skies of Provence…

Limoges, then Brive, and Padirac

Millau and Les Cevennes,

Que du bonheur, both there and back

Quels happy times with friends

She took her lucky proprio

On a true aventure

Via Le Vigan and Avignon

To Rencontres de LURE

For six and a half décennies

These Rencontres have been

An annual point culminant

On typo-grapho scene

And this year’s theme “Constellations”

For Mogette was a tease

Because of her own origins…

Back in Les Seventies

For when Mogette was three weeks old

Her Michelins still gleaming

A pop-rock anthem hit the charts

And Bowie sent us dreaming…

Don’t ask Mogette, just go and see

What Wiki says about this foray to the stars

Part Broadway and the rest Dali

…A song called Life on Mars

So welcome to a serial

We hope you will enjoy

A picture and a verse or two

From all you girls and boys…

Who joined us for that magic time

On journeys to the skies

To inner and to outer space

We’ll try to make it rhyme…

But, chers amis, you must excuse

Us if, de temps en temps

Mogette and her dear proprio

Get rhyme or rhythm wrong…

For we are amateurs, not pro’s

And we will both endeavour

To raise a smile

To share some thoughts

And not to sound too clever

(Now click on Mogette et La Poire for a Bowie moment)

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