la vie en rose

once a year my friends strawberry and stevie and i are certified comediennes at a father-daughter banquet my church gives.

 

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and, after our ritually absurd song and dance routine, our audience wonders whether perhaps we should be just plain certified.

 

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this year the event was styled after an evening in france, so, accordingly, we sang “la vie en rose” … albeit with re-written lyrics.

 

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edith piaf, i do apologize if you lay uneasy in your grave that night.

 

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at least i didn’t do my louis armstrong trumpet impression.

 

photographs by randy johnson.