Preface:
Dear Esther Cohen,
Gilbert Gottfriend and Ros Chast
are not Real Poems. Will you
ever write one again?
RT
A Real Poem, or One Day
A real poem is Monday
morning work zoom
call from a friend
then the library
to bring back books
to get some more
so much to read
every single book a poem
even if you don’t like it much
a visit to Dr. Kempf
to go over blood tests
although they are all normal
I like to visit Dr. Kempf because
I like him and his shoes and he tells me
stories about famous patients
Aretha being one story worthy example
then lunch
with my friend Beatrice
visiting from Paris she says
she is my doctor and my stylist
and later today
the Alte Passover zoom
(email me if you want a link)
and dinner at 8 and we will
watch a movie maybe the Hungarian
film that SJ described yesterday
if we can find it made by a woman
won a prize in Cannes
and then I will read from my new book
and once again try to write a poem
called Why I Don’t Sleep
and maybe I will.
ev
I like it.