I love to set up dream dates
for my childhood idols &
role models; like I'd love to
see a dream date between
Kerouac & Sylvia Plath &
I'm sure Jackson Pollack &
Bettie Page would have hit
it off nicely strolling through
Washington Square Park
circa 1956; when Elvis, the
Beats & the new painters
were all broke & avant-garde
then not broke & no longer
avante-garde; Communists
scaring the **** of people
with threats of nuclear space
invasion; how retro can u get;
how quaint to hold hands
during an air-raid; times have
changed but romance remains
carved in ancient stones long
lost to mankind that survive
only in fragments of shattered
memory nary understood.