Michael Paul Hogan

Still Life with Typewriter

build me a bar on fifty-third
                                          and fifth
a Tiffany window blaze of sparkling liquor

staff it with models from a Ralph Lauren ad
in white-pleated skirts and blue-striped sweaters

& set me a table
                        a plain square table
in a well-lit corner facing the entrance

a portable typewriter
                              a stack of paper

alive to the whole crazy throb of Manhattan

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