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[ '69 Impala ] [ George Has Disappeared ] [ Metropolitan Museum of Art ] [ In the Quiet of the City ] [ Fall Is a Comfortable Season ] [ Studies in Middle-Aged Casual ] [ Sunday at the Mall ] [ Mystere ] [ Cultural Hunger ] [ Lump of Clay ] [ You Laugh ] [ Becky Thatcher Poems ] [ For Those Days When the Words Don't Come ]
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Rush for
enlightenment --
pass from Rome to Durer
in less than three hours.
There are no places for leisurely contemplation.
Move -- herd
until overloaded senses scream relief.
The Cafeteria --
it doesn't serve coffee,
only espresso at a fake marble bar
midway between
Egyptian funerary practices
and the European Sculpture Court.
On, on to modern art --
push, elbow to culture.
The occasional student must vie
with the masses.
Cartier and Byzantium
never had so many visitors
in a single day.
If Constantine had foreseen
the Orthodox priest
shoving with the masses
to purchase a cheap replica cross
he might never have founded the city. |
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[ '69 Impala ] [ George Has Disappeared ] [ Metropolitan Museum of Art ] [ In the Quiet of the City ] [ Fall Is a Comfortable Season ] [ Studies in Middle-Aged Casual ] [ Sunday at the Mall ] [ Mystere ] [ Cultural Hunger ] [ Lump of Clay ] [ You Laugh ] [ Becky Thatcher Poems ] [ For Those Days When the Words Don't Come ]
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