Tchaikovsky died today! And if I were Frank O'Hara
I'd note that it was on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg,
which is St. Petersburg again after a stint as Leningrad,
but I am not. I am listening to Tchaikovsky's fifth
to which Lew got me to listen, and the music goes on.
We asked the composer for a comment,
and the Kurosawa connoisseur replied as follows. — DL
The Power of Tchaikovsky [by Lewis Saul]
Henry Miller
Monsieur Soyez
Croque Madame
The egg on top
Subway: Viva Vavin!
to Châtelet and all that
Future History
Played back daily
I miss the baguettes and
Free Art
Dipsy doodle
Oysters from street vendors
And then my friend Chantal Schtenkrek played her violin
From the fifth floor of the Bastille
Making bright yellow cracks in the glowing
Cobblestones below
How could any of us have known?