Ian C. Smith
‘Je ne regrette rien’
an unrepentant Charles 1
told his French Queen Henrietta
before kneeling to the sword
witnessed by Samuel Pepys
skipping school storing details
for those diaries he would begin
when employed by the future Lord Sandwich
ancestor of the dice and cardsman
inventor of fast food whose name
Cook bestowed on the present Hawaii
Where the good captain was beaten
and eaten and young Willie Bligh
of the crew’s payroll sailed on
to torment moody Fletcher Christian
rehearsing scenes for moody Marlon
who later ruled the mob overacting
the part of Vito Corleone whose youth
was portrayed by Bobby De Niro
who packed on weight to rage
across the screen as that bull
from the Bronx Jake La Motta
who challenged for the title
held by handsome Marcel Cerdan
but the French-Algerian’s plane
crashed leaving his lover Edith Piaf
to sing in a tragic voice songs like
`je ne regrette rien’.
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