A Stranger at a Party
My friend Lisa
wonderful painter
paintings at
West Kortright Center
her friends were there
first woman I met
light linen dress
perfect color
beads that might
have been ivory she's
a painter too
We were sitting on
an outside bench
facing Delaware
county green.
I am a midwesterner
she said.
I like Jews.
Married two of them.
Sam Katz
number one. I met
the second
at a vegetarian
restaurant
in the East Village
in the 70s.
Six kids.
I sold my
paintings
on the street.
In l986 he
lost both legs
in an accident
and the funny thing
is he became
a happier person.
Can you
believe that she said.
He's 96 now.
What else
would you
like to know?