#9 - Vive

It made me peckish too

O land of garlic, frogs, and fine champagne;

of Charles the Mad, and lots of kings called Louis;

of Vercingetorix, and Charlemagne;

(and losing battles, Agincourterloo-ey).

Apologies – I know that’s not quite fair –

the punchline to that joke’s a little easy;

sometimes I can’t resist the laugh that’s there,
blasé to if it comes out cheap and cheesy.

I’ll make amends – I’ll praise your summer sun,

your joie de vivre, your connoisseur cuisine;

resistance to the Fascists, and Verdun,

and how you felled the Ancien Régime.

I’ll elegise all this (plus the Grands Prix)

if you’ll keep sending Camembert and Brie.

AB