Friday, August 2, 2013

4555. MANNERISM

MANNERISM
It was like that at nine o'clock  - 
the pointillists were out  - rive gauche
and Georges Seurat. Having to do, perhaps,
with the French Navy, my impression of the
Impressionists was that they should be impressed.
I went looking for bathing suit beauties and
industrial chimneys. I bought a flower from
the flower girl  -  she said her name was
Marna, and that it rhymed with Hedgewick.
I said I didn't understand. And then she said,
'Language is always a barrier,' putting
a red rose behind her ear.

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