Meet You in the Funny Papers

 

I walked polo ponies.

Porfirio Rubirosa, the pepper mill.

His boss, General Trujillo, the Butcher of

the Caribbean.  The society pages.

The golfing pasture.  Benjy in a buckboard.

Jack Warden’s greatest role.  Unless it was

Tiresias in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite.

I watched a lot of movies.

Hooray for Hollywood.

Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens.

Doing a water ballet with Fernando Lamas,

the world’s greatest Mexican.  Jonathan Winters.

Or was that Ricardo Montalban?  Was that

Robin Williams?  Hold still, Marlene.

Grown man fucks shoat.

A poet is supposed to be broke.

A poet is supposed to wind up

in St. Elizabeth’s.

Belles-lettres is

show business.

 


 

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