God Bless America 4

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February 21st, 2009

I finally caught up with the episode of Mad Men - noted by Nige - which stars that beautiful, beautiful book, Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency. I cannot imagine such a thing happening on British television. So, once again, God Bless America. These are the O’Hara lines from Mayakovsky which form the interior monologue of Dan Draper at the end of the show.
Now I am quietly waiting forthe catastrophe of my personalityto seem beautiful again,and interesting and modern.
The country is grey and brown and white in trees,snows and skies of laughteralways diminishing, less funnynot just darker, not just grey.
It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think ofthat? I mean, what do I? And if I doperhaps I am myself again.

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