we can do this, oui?

you get a postcard
from france, you know a few
people
who live there,
but this is not from
one them.
it's in French.
your high school French
fails you.
you can see your French
III teacher,
mrs. moak
scowling, shaking her
head of brillo
red hair,
snapping her stick
against your desk saying,
in French, we can do this,
oui?