Apollinaire

From Saint-Germain-des-Pres
 To Place Edgar Quinet
 Un flaneur supercool
 Un boulevardier
 Born in Rome, near the Spanish Stairs
 A guy called Guy, Guy Apollinaire
 A nom de plume, a nom de guerre
 For nursing poetry like an au pair
 A guy named Guy Apollinaire
 Apollinaire
 From Montmartre to Parnasse
 The most obscure of his deeds
 Had a tremendous purpose
 Mastered the rules of rhyme and meter
 At life's banquet he was a big eater
 From Saint-Germain-des-Pres
 To Place Edgar Quinet
 Un flaneur supercool, un boulevardier
 Led the avant garde from the top of Montmartre
 Part Baudelaire, part Warhol superstar
 Said he spirited Mona Lisa from the Louvre
 But the writer of 'Alcools' was a spirits lover
 Lived in the zone of pure desire
 The great French language versifier