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I got up every morning, made myself a cup of tea.
Sipped it by the window, toying with insanity.
Bought a paper and cigarettes, seeking out society.
Dined with Braque and Hemingway, spending time in company.
Took a room above a restaurant and painted when I could,
Spent too much time alone and drank more wine than I should.
I lunched each day al fresco in the sidewalk cafés.
Bicycled and walked at night to Operas and Plays
Looked everywhere I could for sanctity.
The summer that I spent overseas.
With friends and then with strangers I asked questions of the muse.
Laughed and cried and wondered if I'd just become confused.
I wandered through the Cabarets and wore my welcome out.
Took love from girls with diamond eyes, but they left only doubts.
I danced with Greta Garbo, painted rings around that town.
July was never warmer 'til the day they shut it down.
I found my bed by one or so and before turning the light,
Read a little Gabereau or something every night.
But I never learned too much from poetry.
The summer that I spent overseas.
From the window of my upstairs room I watched summer go by.
Some days lasted forever and some days the time would fly.
I daily made my rounds of other studios and homes.
I didn't want the crowds but couldn't bear to be alone.
I once sat for Picasso, I once sang with Chevalier,
But melancholy overcame the games I used to play.
And the circle of celebrities that I had called my friends
Grew tiresome sometimes so I could no longer pretend.
That I didn't even know that it was me,
The summer that I spent overseas.
I saw you in a picture I had painted years ago.
Your face was still the warm and loving one I used to know.
And sitting in the cafe' I wondered where you might have gone.
Was this the masquerade that your leaving had brought on.
Before you I was happy like most ordinary men;
Without you I could always be that way again, but then
I see you in the cafe's and I see you in the parks,
And even though the sun was strong the days grew cold and dark.
And I never knew you meant so much to me.
The summer that I spent overseas.
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