Perhaps from Old French gale “merriment,” from galer “rejoice, make merry” (see gallant ). Two years later I consult The Online Etymology Dictionary to see gala (n.)ġ620s, “festive dress or attire” (obsolete), from French en gala, The first one says, No, motherfucker, I want the etymology. To which another one says, I think it’s a kind of party, to which What does “gala” even mean, one of us asks, We are beauty in sunglasses and embroidery and flower crown and plaid, cocktails, Which reminded me of another friend, this one from Paris, looking downĪt Seoul from a gold observatory to say, It’s kind of ugly. Looking around its gilded splendor to say, Look what Empire is capable of. I’m going to take it? Which reminded me of another friend, this time in Paris, One of us looks out at the rows of yellow flowersĪnd says, Can you imagine arriving at land like this, thinking, How beautiful. Some of us hundreds of years ago, for us to hear, You should feel lucky In sunglasses, in lace-up boots, in zigzag, in jeans, commenting onĪ beauty so murderous and magical it emancipated We, poets from the South & West, in the US sense of the words,Īnd the East, in the global sense, walked through a blade of Vermont,
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