Ersatz Cole Porter

Fenster writes:

Eddie quotes Cole Porter.  My rejoinder: Ersatz Cole Porter.

PARIS IN THE OFF-SEASON

I

The Prices

I ask for another stiff boisson

when a seafood repast que nous choissisons

almost breaks my whole bank-ly,

deux mille francs! I say, “francly,

one man’s fish is another man’s poisson”.

II

The Weather

In Paris it’s really quite rainya

than the proverbial plainya in Spainya.

But it couldn’t be better!

After all we’d be wetter,

if we’d traveled the ship Lusitania.

III

Ensemble

So though Paris is lovely and fair,

for more francs and soleil do I care.

And though it may embarrass,

here’s my Judgment of Paris:

Although it’s not sunny, it’s cher.

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Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.
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