This is a lovely poem, Joe, with its mixed language
and its own poiesis.
I love "Ashbery's Haberdashery."
Your "finest fedora" goes its own way, particularly in
an old cartoon (Looney Tunes?):
I'm wearing my green fedora/ /not for Mary but for
Dora/ 'cause Dora is the one I love.
"Mary" is probably wrong, but I can't remember the
Looney Tunes name for her. Anybody?
Candice
--- joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My mojo all gone I wish I were Ashbery.
> No, not the poet. I’d have a haberdashery
> Ashbery’s Haberdashery down thirteen flights.
> We’re closed all the days and all of the nights.
> We’d have derbies and Panamas and the finest fedora
> And a curious headdress from far Bora Bora
> And a nautical hat that’s most like a whale
> And none of it, sadly, quite yet for sale.
> Cause that’s just what happens. That’s how it goes.
> Without rings and your fingers or bells on your
> toes
> You close up the shop and go down to the zoo
> And patiently stare at a panther or two.
> As they patiently stare right back at you
>
> My mojo all gone so I cry
> out thinly
> I want to write poems like Phyllis McGinley.
> If luck were a lady I'd be in Manhattan
> And there'd be a New Yorker to put this and that
> in.
> I'd have an apartment quite near the West Side
> And a small quaint log cabin quite near Telluride.
> And on weekday mornings I'd write poems of wit.
> Then repair to the bedroom and sleep for a bit.
> The slow snow would fall but I'd still go to Macy's
> And then on up to Harlem to listen to Basie.
> I'd understand Swing but be the upset by the Blues.
> Have a fine foxfur coat and fine two tone shoes.
>
>
> See below for Phyllis
>
> http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/640
>
>
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