Not Yet by Stanley Moss

Author:Stanley Moss [MOSS STANLEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781644211281
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2021-08-23T18:00:00+00:00

A Rum Cocktail

I’m in France, happily a little drunk in Nice.

The barman mixes rum with lime strained through cracked ice.

He says he’s an actor most of the time, he has 20 lines in a verse play, The Absurd.

He fills my glass, some thoughts die, some endure, he scratches what I’m not supposed to notice, challenging the actor is a poet’s pleasure, lives change for the better, for good measure, if the play is great...I, Stanley, give you my word, my heroes will not repent a theatrical truth, an upstage truth. I drink “to life,”

I don’t applaud Mary in a confession booth.

The barges and cafes along the Rhone are far from the Bateau Ivre. This apéritif is a call to my arms on a telephone.

The poem of self is undone and done,

I’ve made a lock without a key. Whatever I do I’m locked into what’s new, a necessary pebble, not a granite rock in my shoe.

Infancy is very slow, old age is fast.

Not manneristic, I had porridge for breakfast, my memory is like a Cubist fresco in chambre 10 at the Hotel Negresco.

My continuing joy since I was young Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon, my friendship and love for Miró and Rothko.

However beautiful the day, there’s sorrow, I leave for España Negra tomorrow, mis amores, on the Ramblas de Las Flores.

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