Parisian Neoclassical Street Furniture

You ever heard the expression "festooned with"

something? I mean that odd word, "festoon."

Well, you see the smog-covered, dusty mermaids

up there, with the European and French flags –

and those long curved tchotchkes that look

like draped netting overstuffed with vegetation

of some kind? Those draped things,

those would be "festoons."