The Evening Sun by David Lehman

Author:David Lehman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2002-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

JULY 7

The greatest genius in the history

of American marketing is the guy

who added the word “repeat”

to the directions on the back

of the shampoo bottle

you can spend a day like today

(too cool for a swim, too lazy to work)

watching the market as if it were

a ballgame with a late-inning Nasdaq

rally and we could rate fund managers

on their risk-adjusted, front-weighted

three-to-five-year average

relative to their benchmark index

but I feel like calling Glen, Gillian, Lloyd

& editing a volume of Henry James’s

tales of writers and artists

I’m like the character in the hotel

of a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

& the sun enters the room like an arm

whose hand holds a cigarette lighter

I don’t want to work I want to smoke

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