pardon my french
a philosopher named Jean Paul Sartre
said there was no raison d'etre
a friend of his named Jean Genet
lived a life that was toujours gaie
Simone de Beauvoir looked at men
and said we should cherchez la femme
Pablo Picasso had no hair
but he always knew how to savoir faire
Anais Nin blew a fart
and kept it as an objet d'art
de Gaulle was so tall he had to be
the one and only maitre d'
Albert Camus sadly saw
something he called je ne sais quoi
Edith Piaf had to leave
because she died of joie de vivre
Bridget Bardot couldn't see
how clubbing seals was c'est la vie
Mata Hari was called a whore
because she had esprit de corps
Sarah Bernhardt couldn't dance
so she said let's vive la difference!
(From Four Quarters, by Edith Speers, Esperance Press
2001 pp.65-66.)
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