A Sitting Ovation

watch

the Dreamers

with the French

girls breasts

as perfect

as croissants

and her

shoulderblades

sharp

as knives

if nothing else

you can say "bertolucci"

out loud at parties

and people will automatically

respect you.

employee of the

month kind

of shit.

Believe 

it.

and

when life

is in the clouds

think about

necking

at a matinee

or just

attending

a

matinee 

at

all.

ha

think of

disneyland (not world)

or

how

they always

name hurricanes

after girls

thinka

when our dreams

did not seem

so far away 

from us,

like

swimming pools

from 

airplane windows see

I hate this poem

already

which means 

it will never be fin

ished.

and when i get

on the 

silver 

caterpillar

underground

and go uptown

i watch the 

circus of glances

between

strangers

and thats 

the stuff.

(the whole

shebang)

i'm talkin

about truth

and beauty

(the doublemint twins)

and I know,

new york

is always giving 

you

the broken glass hand job

but 

you

stay

because

who knows

you might, i don't know

fuck a total

stranger

or really

y'know

put your thumbprint

on a skyscraper 

here

but 

leaving

well, 

that

would be like

sneaking

out

the 

front door.