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The Paris End

by Dean Kyte

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In this prose poem, Dean Kyte, the Melbourne Flâneur, takes a nostalgic flânerie up the so-called ‘Paris End’ of Collins Street, where he discovers a more vivid encounter with Paris than he expected as he reminisces about his last night in the Ville Lumière.

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‘The Paris End’:—it’s one of those magick phrases which evoke the sweet life of flâneurial streetlife for me. And whenever I treat myself to a flânerie up ‘the Paris End’ of Collins street, like someone raising and lowering their shades, I shuffle the rosetinted souvenirs de Paris over les scènes melburniennes before my gaze.

When I saw the rougetainted Regent Theatre lit up to fête “Moulin Rouge!”, like le coup d’un souvenir enfoui, the farded façade dans la place Blanche floated up, suddenly unballasted, and I remembered standing on the little asphalt île de la place on my dernière nuit à Paris. Then I knew what the phrase ‘the Paris End’ meant to me; it meant ‘la fin de Paris’.

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released May 1, 2022
Dean Kyte: “178 Collins Street, night”

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Dean Kyte Melbourne, Australia

Dean Kyte is a writer, filmmaker and flâneur.

His CD of prose poetry and literary crime fiction, “The Spleen of Melbourne”, is available on BC.

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