D. E. Green is right. Everything does sound better in French. See if you don’t agree. You can learn more about Doug Green, and read more of his poetry here.
for Diamonique Walker
Why does everything sound better in French?
Wittier? More pointed? More apt and apropos?
You know, with savoir faire and all that merde.
A woman I know from Cote d’Ivoire
likes to say how much she hates things,
but she does it with panache. Sometimes
she even says, je vous déteste. Sure, she’s saying
she hates me, but, god, doesn’t it sound
great? I mean I could be hated all day
by everybody as long as they said, je vous
déteste. And I want to do some je déteste-ing
of my own. Je déteste le sandwich de pain rassis.
It’s just stale bread, but it sounds like something
you’d hear at the United Nations, even the Louvre.
Wouldn’t it change the whole sorry dining
experience to walk into a MacDonald’s
and say, je déteste votre Big Mac? To tell
a bombastic politician, Assez, monsieur! Assez!
D. E. Green
Sarah Russell Poetry 
“je suis fatigue.” is always my go to, will get me into our out of most situations.
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When the kids were little and being loud and obstreperous in public, my go to was “Tais-toi.” They knew I meant business with that one, but it didn’t carry quite the punch to passers-by.
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Parfait!
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Here’s one expression I always liked and still use often. (Hope I’ve got it right after all these years!) “Les choses se laisse trainer partout.” I always picture things scattering themselves and flopping down all over the room/house.
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And isn’t that more elegant than saying, This place is a (expletive deleted) mess? Love it!
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I have just read this poem while I was in the doctor’s wating room. It was in this delightful pamphlet https://waitingroompoems.wordpress.com/
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Isn’t that a wonderful pamphlet and project. The organizer found my work 2 years ago and asked if I would be part of the project. “Better in French” isn’t my poem though. It was written by D. E. Green. But I have to agree… Things really DO sound better in French! My poem in that pamphlet is “Corks.”
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Lovely to read Corks on your website. 🙂 I felt as though I were there among the corks and the fishermen.
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Thank you so much! And thank you for the “follow.” I hope you enjoy my work.
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