Come on in and stay a while <br />I'll photograph you emerging from the revolving door <br />like Frank O'Hara dating the muse of modern art <br />Talking about the big Pollock show is better <br />than going to it on a dismal Saturday afternoon <br />when my luncheon partner is either the author or the subject <br />of The Education of Henry Adams at a hard-to-get- <br />a-table-at restaurant on Cornelia Street <br />just what is chaos theory anyway <br />I'm not sure but it helps explain "Autumn Rhythm" <br />the closest thing to chaos without crossing the border <br />I think you should write that book on Eakins and also the one <br />on nineteenth century hats the higher the hat the sweller the toff <br />and together we will come up with Mondrian in the grid of Manhattan <br />Gerald Murphy's "Still Life with Wasp" and the best Caravaggio in the country <br />in Kansas City well it's been swell, see you in Cleveland April 23 <br />The reason time goes faster as you grow older is that each day <br />is a tinier proportion of the totality of days in your life<br /><br />David Lehman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-modern-art/
