in the
Lower East side 1975
oh, Andy those
days
of yellow apocalypse
yesterday
the Oscar
Wilde
of the
Sloane Rangers come by
when Noel
who writes songs
was eating
chocolate in a pink bubble
and
we were going
to escape the heat wave
until Bill
took ill
life after
death in purple and blue stars
forever
in Enceladus
they faded
79, they
say, is the year of the change
print,
piano, case, frame
wrap it,
place it under the stairs
the steel
magnolias and the cotton candy
that Tommy
brought from a faraway land
forgotten
at the
bottom of the garden
an infinite eight suspended
like an angel
Caravaggio
gambled his brushes
in the time
travel Sandro won them
painting
the one who arises
naked
so magical,
so sheltered
oh, those
days, in the Lower East Side, 1975
