The Cafe Society

nothing's forever cinderella

so it goes

　

the elite will run in packs

mantras

and heuristics

strictly adhered to

"thems da rules"

experienced in the wider public

as respect

enforced via shame

shame

f*****g shame

and other falls from glamour

into the ether

of relationships not to be brought home

but still treasured still remembered

fondly

　

like the nightclubs of the new york 1920's

between 15th and 16th street

between third avenue and sixth

socially transient to the core. . .

dorothy parker is still adored

in the café society

　something always very easily forgotten

yet still

    it's everywhere

like air

sans the rules

f*****g culture

filthy culture

sometimes remembered

or not so much

(it just comes naturally)

Author's Note

Reviews

[Charles Anthony Almanza]

Very surreal and aggressive, I really like this piece. I don't dabble too much in poetry and don't think that it's really up my alley but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate a good poem when I see one. My only advice: maybe get into the nitty, gritty details of the ancient, more bombast version of New York you were describing? If your goal is to be abstract then you absolutely hit it on the head but Im a fiend for details, no matter how dreamlike the sequence is.

One of my favorite poems I've read this year, though. Thanks for the chance to read it.

x

[Davidgeo]

That's a pretty fine suggestion. If I ever come back to this I will re read your comment. Also, I'm too stupid to be realistic so absolutely I do try and be vague and abstract. This poem could be about racing salamanders in the summer of 1996 for all you know.