Carla Bruni

No Promisses

This, no song of an ingénue, /This, no ballad of innocence;/This, the rhyme of a lady who/ Followed ever her natural bents./This, a solo of sapience, /This, a chantey of sophistry,/ This, the sum of experiments, -

Ballade at Thirty-five (Dorothy Parker - 1893-1967)