Las Palabras de Amour

This Queen song title started running through my head this morning. Las Palabras de Amour is off of the Queen Hot Space album from 1982. I can say that the album was too big of a departure for me to appreciate it and I did not listen to it as much as their previous albums. However, Las Palabras de Amour, which translates to "The Words of Love" is a phrase that I used when I was dating my wife. I titled a poem (yes I was a poetry writer) to my wife and she just melted. I was a prolific poetry writer while we were dating and even after we were engaged. The words of love flowed from the ends of my fingers like dew from the tip of a double rainbow.

Now using foreign words also reminds me of the movie, "A Fish Called Wanda." If is a comedy staring John Cleese and Michael Palin from Monty Python, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline (who won an academy award for his performance). In the movie, Jamie Lee Curtis plays a money grubbing woman who is going to double cross the men in a movie to get the jewels from a heist. She has a weakness for men who can speak a foreign language and gets aroused when they do. If you havn't seen it, it is very funny and worth the time. Kevin Kline plays her brother (who is actually her boyfriend/soon to be dooped) who thinks he's smart because he is reading philosophy but is actually nothing more than an ignorant lout. He quotes bits and pieces of Italian (parmaseano, linguini, pepperoni) and thinks he is a great lover. It is a hoot.

Now, my wife and I laugh at the movie. She does not share the proclivity of loving foreign languages like Wanda. She does love poetry and has kept everything I ever wrote for her. I can still recall a few of the lines and remember laboring over then to make sure they were truely my words of love.

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