H1N1
NO I DO NOT WANT YOUR H1N1 FLOTSAM IN MY DRINK
At the Lightbox waiting to see Peggy Guggenheim
documentary barmaid with a cold wipes her nose
repetitively Otherwise she is chic+bell-bottomed
Her hands getting sticky as I try to escape with some
dignity Alas no cocktail for me (Ophelia-tinis/$21)
A man with green corduroys +a woman with a limp
comment on my fresh style They swoon for my fire-red
hair I stare glassy-eyed no tequila to ease my misanthropia
And with my favourite literary critic Harold Bloom I agree:
Ophelia went to a better place than had she married
Hamlet the Dane
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A creeping unclean thing he seems His nasty poking +sniffling
at his mother His traps for the King His conceited perversion for
Ophelia make him always intolerable (D.H. Lawrence too agrees)
Winter 2015 for Paolo Santalucia Hamlet
