The Seagull

September 2nd, 2009, Long Branch, N.J.

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Lunch Break, Highbridge

Girls with Guitars, July 4, 2002 (c) LB
Second Avenue and East 3rd Street, New York

Winnowing through the Archive

The 4 Express takes me to the Bronx.
Through a red door I enter a seemingly
impregnable storage fortress
which contains the archive.
A recent visit yielded this
handwritten note, perhaps a script
character note, retyped here until
OS-9 scanner gets hooked up, see?

"Hypocrisy, besides being the tribute
vice pays to virtue,is also one of the artifices by which vice renders itself
more interesting."
Aldous Huxley, "Those Barren Leaves"

On the Bowery

Wiser Than God at BLT, 270 Bowery, is a show in which all the artists were born before 1927, and are alive and thriving. Curated by Adrian Danatt and Jan Frank in response to the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus, Wiser Than God is open through August 2.

AUTHOR'S PLIGHT

On East Tenth Street in a bookstore
Frederic Tuten’s “The Green Hour”
Is the last book on the far right
Of the second shelf from the floor.

Above it a label reads, Signed Copies.

Through the door, as though on cue,
A whitehaired man in overcoat
Bursts into the store,
A marinade of indecision.

Slicing through the browsers
His long arm hooks
The last book on the far right
Of the second shelf from the floor

I pluck another copy and compare
The image of the author on the sleeve
With the face of the man at the counter
Paying for his book in the store




December 28 2003
New York