POTOMAC BEACH 1920.

A GROUP OF GIRLS HAVE THEIR PHOTO TAKEN ON POTOMAC BEACH IN 1920.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is Scott’s idea
About taking the
Photograph, his big

 

Notion you should all
Stand there in your wet
Bathing costumes while

 

He takes the picture,
And all you can think
About is getting

 

Out of the wet things
And getting dry, and
Going out with Joe

 

To that place he knows
Where there is good food,
Booze and jazz and he’d

 

Say, don’t bring along
Any of your girl
Friends, I want it to

 

Be just you and me
And a good time and
Maybe after we

 

Can go and see a
Movie and if you’re
Really good and my

 

Old lady’s out for
The night, you and me
Can hit the sheets, but

 

Only young Dixie
Laughing aloud brings
You right back to the

 

Moment as Scott’s box
Camera does its
Job and you all just

 

Stare at it for a
Moment and at Scott’s
Plastered down hair and

 

A lit cigarette
Hanging from his mouth,
And you feeling as if

 

Something then had been
Taken from you, some
Part of your life had

 

Been captured and stored
Away, a moment
Of time, of yours and

 

The other girls, and
The place and that one
Second there, stuck down

 

For always for you
And others to see,
And yet no one, not

 

Even you now can
Really remember
Exactly what it

 

Was you were feeling
Or thinking at that
Moment that Scott’s box

 

Camera snapped that
Image; all frozen;
A dead thing; just that;

 

A photograph, of you
And the girls, and
The silence broken;

 

Some one farts aloud
And makes Dixie laugh.