There is in poetry, as in champagne, and as in humor, sweet and dry and, yes, extra dry. It has been said, for example, that le brut offre un équilibre entre fraîcheur et accessibilité (strikes a balance between freshness and accessibility). But the extra dry? Or it may be useful to recall that as previously noted, irony deficiency has been running rampant.

English followed by une version en français y una versión en español. And at the very bottom there is a graph from Le Parisien newspaper showing the effects of global warming on Paris weather in June.

With a next terrible heat wave upon us here in France, it has occurred to me that my New England a, ancestors and many others used to put miscreants in pillory stocks. Might we now, whenever the temperature hits a new high, put in stocks business people, politicians, editorial writers and on-screen or radio commentators who have advocated for not vigorously addressing the problem of climate change? Once the heat wave had ended, they would be released.

English

The super-rich can even write poetry

What really changed after I – me – became super-rich

Was that now I was super-rich.

I zipped around the world on planes and yachts

Custom-made for the super-rich.

I lived (or had homes) in places where everyone was super-rich

(Not counting the servants of the super-rich).

I had conversations about what to do once you were super-rich,

And how to make more money and not pay taxes if you were super-rich.

In a way, it was all much like before,

Only now I, you see, was super-rich.

Français

Les ultra-riches peuvent même écrire de la poésie

Ce qui a vraiment changé après que je sois devenu ultra-riche

C’est que j’étais désormais ultra-riche.

Je me rendais dans tous les coins du monde à bord d’avions et de yachts

Conçus sur mesure pour les ultra-riches.

Je vivais (ou disons que j’avais des biens immobiliers) dans des endroits

Où tout le monde était ultra-riche

(Sans compter les domestiques des ultra-riches).

Je discutais de ce qu’il fallait faire une fois qu’on était ultra-riche,

Et de comment gagner encore plus d’argent et ne pas payer d’impôts

Lorsqu’on était ultra-riche.

D’une certaine manière, tout était comme avant,

Sauf que maintenant moi, vous voyez, j’étais ultra-riche.

Español

Los superricos pueden incluso escribir poesía

Lo que realmente cambió después de convertirme en superrico

es que ahora era superrico.

Viajaba a todos los rincones del mundo a bordo de aviones y yates

diseñados a medida para los superricos.

Vivía (o mejor dicho, tenía propiedades inmobiliarias) en lugares

donde todo el mundo era superrico

(sin contar a los empleados de los superricos).

Hablaba de lo que había que hacer una vez que se era superrico,

y de cómo ganar aún más dinero y no pagar impuestos

cuando se era superrico.

En cierto modo, todo era como antes,

excepto que ahora yo, ya ves, era superrico.

Graph from Le Parisien

Number of June days with temperatures in Paris above 25C and above 30C from 1960 to 2025

— Poem(s) by William Eaton. The idea was born after a rich friend passed along, late one evening, an article about some community in Dubai where some of the super-rich have gone to live (or have bought property). It is only too bad that they cannot be made to stay there?