Novice loves

 The people who look sideways

think that the green benches
that one sees on the pavements
are made for the disabled or the overweight.
But that’s absurd,
because, to tell the truth,
they are there, it’s widely known,
to make welcome, for some time, couples beginning their love.
The lovers on public benches, song by Georges Brassens, 1959, translated by Tom Thomson