ODE TO MOLESKINE
I didn't spell it, I just paid too much for it.
Does that account for why I've bought a carload
of them over the last six years?
When I have money I buy Moleskines
instead of paying the rent?
Funny that Richard Avedon never photographed ME.
Copywriter ka-ka:
"MOLESKINE IS THE LEGENDARY NOTEBOOK,
USED BY EUROPEAN ARTISTS AND THINKERS
FOR THE PAST TWO CENTURIES,
FROM VAN GOGH TO PICASSO,
FROM ERNEST HEMINGWAY TO BRUCE CHATWIN."
Bruce Chatwin. I just got an education.
I lived 62 years not knowing his name.
In the words of Tom Wayman
"Did I miss anything?"
I had nothing to do with the notebook except
I own a couple.
No, I own a truckload
and it hasn't helped compensate for
the mediocrity.
Nicolayev published one poem I wrote
in a Moleskine notebook
so maybe it was worth it.
Ten minutes, no thought.
A snapshot before I ever heard of them
and before I used digital cameras.
Right, they're a fortune.
I bought my first ones in Bombay Company
in Towson Mall in Maryland.
The last one I bought in December,
it's one of the supersize Moleskines
I bought in Macawber's in Princeton.
Maybe C. K. Williams and Joyce Carol Oates
use them too.
I don't know why people can't spell
I don't think the notebooks are made
of trouser material
or from dead moles
or from skin.
Instead, they are Daisy Buchanan's voice.--
jingle, jingle, bling, bling,
a jiveassed faceplace on your existence
as iPod.
Did Fitzgerald write in them too?
Kenny-Poo/7-6-06 <just found out he's reemployed but still all changed
changed utterly>
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Ken Wolman kenwolman.com rainermaria.typepad.com
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