An All-night Conversation with You
Published in The Ekphrastic Review in response to The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali (Spain) 1931
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An All-night Conversation with You
After Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara
If I could turn back time - Cher
An all-night conversation with you
is better than an afternoon chat with anyone else right now.
Maybe because we love absorbing esoteric movies
and dissecting them ad nauseum for days.
Maybe because we love attending theatres
and pretending to be theatre critics.
Maybe because I loved to have parties
And you loved being a guest in our home.
Maybe because we traveled so much.
And, now, the world reminds me of you.
I would rather see you than –
London, Paris, Kashmir, Machu Pichu or Disneyland
on either coast.
I imagine us a couple of old pillows
hanging out on the sofa
Stuffing our faces with popcorn and wine.
If we invited your wife, could you get a hall pass
for one more movie
one more conversation?
I have so much to tell you.
After Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara
If I could turn back time - Cher
An all-night conversation with you
is better than an afternoon chat with anyone else right now.
Maybe because we love absorbing esoteric movies
and dissecting them ad nauseum for days.
Maybe because we love attending theatres
and pretending to be theatre critics.
Maybe because I loved to have parties
And you loved being a guest in our home.
Maybe because we traveled so much.
And, now, the world reminds me of you.
I would rather see you than –
London, Paris, Kashmir, Machu Pichu or Disneyland
on either coast.
I imagine us a couple of old pillows
hanging out on the sofa
Stuffing our faces with popcorn and wine.
If we invited your wife, could you get a hall pass
for one more movie
one more conversation?
I have so much to tell you.
