Mommy Takes Manhattan
Going to NYC for the weekend...friends in Arizona booked a room at the Sheraton on Times Square for a wedding, wedding got cancelled, they gave me the room! My good friend Strawhead Burton will be meeting me for whatever madness we can manage to get up to...I'm thinking mojitos and jazz clubs for starters...hurray for a good time, good friends, my lovely sister Jr. for taking the kids, and for Fall in Manhattan...planning Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art roof garden on Sunday. (Staying till Monday morning!!!)
The Day Lady Died
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me
I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
Frank O'Hara
Going to NYC for the weekend...friends in Arizona booked a room at the Sheraton on Times Square for a wedding, wedding got cancelled, they gave me the room! My good friend Strawhead Burton will be meeting me for whatever madness we can manage to get up to...I'm thinking mojitos and jazz clubs for starters...hurray for a good time, good friends, my lovely sister Jr. for taking the kids, and for Fall in Manhattan...planning Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art roof garden on Sunday. (Staying till Monday morning!!!)
The Day Lady Died
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me
I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
Frank O'Hara
posted by MJ at 6:55 AM
7 Comments:
Looking forward to the children's arrival. I am going to Times Square today to get candy for Kate at the Disney store! Have fun at the museum, think of me while drinking wine on the roof!
that is just my favorite go gos video. so campy and perfect for vacation posts.
Have a great time, Mary Elizabeth! Sounds like a perfect 3-day weekend!
What are the rest of you all doing? Jr, why are you going all the way into Times Square to buy Kate candy? Have fun! It's a beautiful fall Saturday!
Well Linderloo, I ended up at TJ Max in Manhattan and got Kate's candy there. Time's Square is about ten minutes away from where I live as we are on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel.
New blog entry please.
I am really craving pie right now, I am thinking blueberry!
Hey all, won my very first ss claim today, and it's my birthday too! Yahoo!
Happy Birthday Linderloo! Have some pie, you deserve it!!! It is too cold for mint Juleps in the garden now, but maybe you can join us on Christmas Eve for a Hot Toddy!
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