The Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge
by le hinton
it rained today
yesterday too
and tomorrow’s ☼ sun has
already called in sick
by now Berlin is rather moist
wetter than fingers under a blanket
searching for holy ☺ happiness
carefully placed strokes are efficient
and Germans are nothing if not efficient
so prepare, polish, and perform
drei ∞ zwei ∞eins ∞ah!
i still prefer French in the dark
there is nothing up my sleeves
just rehearse enough
and you too can transform
Evian in a modest Madeira
or turn simple well water
into a buttery chardonnay
good with fish or chicken
practice makes perfect
and perfect always gets the ♀ girl
and sometimes the ♂ guy too
meanwhile back in New York
a man stands on a bridge
and teaches his saxophone to swim
while endlessly composing ♫
duets for dummies
Ja! Gebe sie mich Le Hinton! i prefer 99 red balloons Deutsch to Frere Jaques Francais in the dark (SNL’s Dieter would agree), but man did i luv the poem. Icons were a nice addition to the visual aspect. …And as usual, Monsieur Le Hinton comes thru with a powerful poetic delivery.
“…transform Evian in a modest Madeira..” water into wine?
“practice makes perfect and perfect always gets the girl and sometimes the guy too” …classic lines!
Pretty good wrap-up at end too: “a man stands on a bridge and teaches his saxophone to swim while endlessly composing duets for dummies” …all in NY! Is that where the Williamsburg Bridge is? And is that where Le Hinton resides?
Great work! Drei 3, Zwei 2, Eins 1, …i disapear!
Wir haben drei sonnige Tages dieses Wochenende gehabt, aber ich verpasse die Dichtung und das Wetter von Pennsylvania.
I can’t even teach my iPod to play in the shower.
“We cannot say whether anyone can learn it. However, nearly everyone learns, at an early age, how to produce, reliably, the dozens of different vocal tract configurations required to speak one or more languages,”
Joe Wolfe, University of New South Wales Physics Professor