untitled19
who should i address and why
should i address you? it seems
kind of portentous to be twenty
years old and worrying about your
style, earlier today i went to the
new york school’s wikipedia and i
wrote all over it fuck the new york
school but two minutes later it just
said new york school again and i’d
basically been exposed as a fraud so
i went to a cafe smoked cigarettes
and drank ricard thought about sitting
on my own in a movie theatre maybe
walking round larry rivers’ studio and
saying hey larry you’re just so damn
figurative but in that moment he’d know
me as someone with an inkling of the
political legacy of the second nixon
administration and i’d have to run
cursing the clumsiness of phrases such
as ‘second nixon administration’ and
‘political legacy’ especially combined
and without which i’d probably be away
by now but larry rivers isn’t chasing
me he isn’t even watching me no he’s
content to let me run out of steam on
my own accord and i doubt he even
cares so you know what larry i’ll just
stop and anyway this is a transcendentalist
poem so whatever - my soul got battered
in the breeze; american beauty.