My Dear Montreal, I miss you like nothing else.

[monctezuma]

by Tabia Lau (facebook) on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 6:51pm ·

 

My Dear Montreal,

 

 

 

I miss you like nothing else.

 

 

 

Montreal, your walls of concrete and collapsing bridges, your tardy buses and delayed metros. Your incidents that causent un ralentissement for a duree indeterminee sur la ligne orange in my direction. Oh Montreal, your potholes and signs of ARRET and odd hilltop slopes.

 

 

 

Your grey skies and hesitant Autumns with children rattling off numbers in a playground in broken Quebecois and your speedy Springs and torrential snowfalls in February and April. Your french baguettes and hipsters on Ste-Catherine on bixis and plaid hats with red squares.

 

Montreal I miss your Tam tams.

 

 

 

I'm homesick for your noise, Montreal. I miss the buses driving by, I miss the pitter-patter of jaywalkers, the french chatter on St-Denis and the gusts of winds up on Mont-Royal. Oh I miss Mont Royal, your blue skies and green lawn, the music of your LARPers and Tam-tams. I miss the Tam-Tams, the self-forming circle and slight haze of 420, the city, the earth, the blades of grass breathing with us as we beat, as a city, as one.

 

 

 

I miss your cracking Old Montreal, your warm creperies and bus tours.

 

I miss your dying newspapers and your bill 101.

 

I miss your easy film rating system, the way bus drivers wave to one another.

 

I miss your voice in the metro, the parade of scarves in October, Americans already in puffy coats, girls in UGGS in Westmount. I miss your jewish bakeries and italian pasta, your chinese noodles and greek wraps, your hidden Tibetan cuisine and Indian buffets, Your fresh fruits by Cote-Des-Neiges and buses upon buses at Vendome.

 

I miss this ridiculous bagel feud (St-Viateur ftw), and this slightly less ridiculous language barrier.

 

 

 

I miss your music festivals, Montreal. No one loves music the way you do.

 

 

 

I miss your Quebecois accent, and your ridiculously small street signs. Your rude old ladies and creepy old men. The violinists on the metros and free hugs in the Old Port. I miss your habs riots and your policemen on horses, I miss your street construction and lights.

 

 

 

I'm going to miss your Christmas lights, Montreal. That'll be when this hits hardest, won't it? Christmas.

 

I miss your Christmas lights, Montreal.

 

Rene Levesque and Penfield with large wreaths.

 

 

 

I miss your Autumn already, Montreal.

 

It isn't fair I may never live through the entirety of another Montreal autumn,

 

another Halloween night.

 

I love your leaves and gusts

 

and the parks, at night.

 

I miss your chilly raindrops.

 

 

 

You know,

 

I will try to collect some of your sunscent, your gorgeous bilingual humid night moisture

 

bring it with me

 

wherever I go

 

whoever I become

 

you will always be home.

[identifiant]

Describes exactly how I feel at the moment.

I've been in Frankfurt for the last month, before that I was in OKC for the whole summer and man... I miss Montreal.

Montreal is so gritty, noisy, chaotic, yet it's really easy to find a peaceful place. There's only 2 cities that I know of that can provide such extremes (and do it so well): Montreal and New York.

[rapoune]

by Tabia Lau (facebook) on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 6:51pm ·

 

My Dear Montreal,

 

 

 

I miss you like nothing else.

 

 

 

Montreal, your walls of concrete and collapsing bridges, your tardy buses and delayed metros. Your incidents that causent un ralentissement for a duree indeterminee sur la ligne orange in my direction. Oh Montreal, your potholes and signs of ARRET and odd hilltop slopes.

 

 

 

Your grey skies and hesitant Autumns with children rattling off numbers in a playground in broken Quebecois and your speedy Springs and torrential snowfalls in February and April. Your french baguettes and hipsters on Ste-Catherine on bixis and plaid hats with red squares.

 

Montreal I miss your Tam tams.

 

 

 

I'm homesick for your noise, Montreal. I miss the buses driving by, I miss the pitter-patter of jaywalkers, the french chatter on St-Denis and the gusts of winds up on Mont-Royal. Oh I miss Mont Royal, your blue skies and green lawn, the music of your LARPers and Tam-tams. I miss the Tam-Tams, the self-forming circle and slight haze of 420, the city, the earth, the blades of grass breathing with us as we beat, as a city, as one.

 

 

 

I miss your cracking Old Montreal, your warm creperies and bus tours.

 

I miss your dying newspapers and your bill 101.

 

I miss your easy film rating system, the way bus drivers wave to one another.

 

I miss your voice in the metro, the parade of scarves in October, Americans already in puffy coats, girls in UGGS in Westmount. I miss your jewish bakeries and italian pasta, your chinese noodles and greek wraps, your hidden Tibetan cuisine and Indian buffets, Your fresh fruits by Cote-Des-Neiges and buses upon buses at Vendome.

 

I miss this ridiculous bagel feud (St-Viateur ftw), and this slightly less ridiculous language barrier.

 

 

 

I miss your music festivals, Montreal. No one loves music the way you do.

 

 

 

I miss your Quebecois accent, and your ridiculously small street signs. Your rude old ladies and creepy old men. The violinists on the metros and free hugs in the Old Port. I miss your habs riots and your policemen on horses, I miss your street construction and lights.

 

 

 

I'm going to miss your Christmas lights, Montreal. That'll be when this hits hardest, won't it? Christmas.

 

I miss your Christmas lights, Montreal.

 

Rene Levesque and Penfield with large wreaths.

 

 

 

I miss your Autumn already, Montreal.

 

It isn't fair I may never live through the entirety of another Montreal autumn,

 

another Halloween night.

 

I love your leaves and gusts

 

and the parks, at night.

 

I miss your chilly raindrops.

 

 

 

You know,

 

I will try to collect some of your sunscent, your gorgeous bilingual humid night moisture

 

bring it with me

 

wherever I go

 

whoever I become

 

you will always be home.

 

 

Pretty... any chance there's a link to it?

[yarabundi]

Je viens tout juste de lire ça !! Une belle déclaration d'amour. Malheureusement, trop souvent il faut avoir été loin de MOntréal pour un bon bout de temps pour réaliser jusqu'à quel point notre ville est agréable -malgré tous ces défauts. Je ne changerais pas de ville pour tout l'or du monde !!

[MtlMan]

Je viens tout juste de lire ça !! Une belle déclaration d'amour. Malheureusement, trop souvent il faut avoir été loin de MOntréal pour un bon bout de temps pour réaliser jusqu'à quel point notre ville est agréable -malgré tous ces défauts. Je ne changerais pas de ville pour tout l'or du monde !!