MEETING MANHATTAN
Met Helmwige backstage,
live at the Met.
Our youth,
wrapped in iPod tech
seemed somehow engaged
by the 19th century.
Met Sieglinde at Max Brenners
humming pop songs from the ‘80s.
Same youth,
rapt in chocolate,
could not connect
with the twentieth.
Later met Wagner
live in HD.
Cinema close-ups disturbed
with spit and drool detail.
Met Cathy’s chocolates.
Mothers’ Day
at 69th and Madison.
An Italian mailing candy
interrupted our sampling.
Met no one at Le Charlot,
French lunch al fresco.
Glass walls, open; customers, insular,
not here for the atmosphere.
Eye contact scorned.
Waited at the Chelsea
but Dylan Thomas and Thomas Wolfe were no-shows.
Instead, lunched Greek at Nisos.
That man passing by on the street,
why is he acknowledging me?
DRK
8/22/11
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