Gare de Lyon-Bureau d'Information
a perfect oval, with so faultless features
that they look to have been painted over years
by a Persian miniaturist, so much they're gentle:
and that wonder, coming from Orient
on roses feet, that little Sherezade,
wears the flame red cap of the sncf.*
that would be delicious, on a so nice face:
what a pity that' it's roughly wrapped up
in the absurd prison of a chador.
whoever puts a veil on a nice woman
cannot understand anything about life.

* sncf: that is the logo of the French State Railways
( Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer)