Paris for the Lost

 Paris for the Lost

            —after The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix Series

No one in the family noticed when

Midge Maisel’s mother left for Paris

one day.  She longed for the small room

where she had learned her French years

before.  Was it still there?  It was.  And

the landlady still remembered her.

So she got a dog, named it Simone, and 

stayed.  Why not?  She had no use for  

her stingy, mysogynist brothers who

wouldn’t honor her inheritance. A cheap 

Paris bedroom with a shared bathroom 

down the hall had worked before. 

She’d make it work again. Her fluent 

French had already won back her old

friends when her oblivious husband 

arrived to take her home. He bought 

a beret and wore it.  Though charmed, 

she couldn’t give up Paris—yet.

But her daughter Midge left her kids

in NYC to join the mission, so recapture

& return were inevitable. Paris spun

the event as a second honeymoon, but 

all the way to the airport Midge’s mother 

sat turned in the cab with her little dog

on her lap, watching Paris disappear. 

And yes, tears streamed down her face.

                                        —Sef, 4/28/ 2025