poetry from Andy Christ

Open Invitation

Philippe Soupault, where are you now?
We need your humor. Are you still walking
the streets of Paris after the Great War,
the War to End All Wars, asking strangers
if they know where Philippe Soupault lives?
Is your friend Jacques Rigaut with you still,
and do you still go together to
dinner parties to which neither of you
were invited? I hope you will
bring your flowers and chocolates here, and
have supper with us.
Teach us how to smile when the door opens
and we are welcomed to a little feast
of strangers.




Andy Christ