Blablacar

A new pentelope from the prolific pen of GH in France...

Blablacar is a fabulous system of car-sharing which is conquering France because of the rail strike. People hesitate at first to use it, then discover that it’s a means to meet other people totally outside their own circles and are converted. It’s viral. I’m a zealot myself. The name comes from the fact that you are bound to chat once inside the car.

You know a kir, invented by Chanoine Kir, then Mayor of Dijon.

Un milouf is mild slang for a military. The one in the poem needs to join his unit after a leave.

The curé in the last line is coming back to his presbytery.

Here goes :

Blablacar

Suite au manque de trains, à nous donc Blablacar !
Bien sûr on n’irait pas au bout du monde, au Caire…
Mais, ma foi, à Dijon pour siroter un kir
Ou bien si le milouf doit rejoindre son corps
Voire pour le curé retourner à sa cure…

Cheers !
GH 2018

[Translation: As a result of the shortage of trains, we're car-sharing; obviously, we don't go to the ends of the earth, to Cairo; but, my word, to Dijon to sip a kir, or if the serviceman needs to return to barracks; or the parish priest to his presbytery]