The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (73 page)

“It’s all so unfair.

“Are you having fun?

“You are too!      (sigh)

“That’s Robert Ryan. You should come see him. He’s

being in a musical.

“Oh God, he looks so great!”

“He looks too much like my father.

“It has Averill Harriman in it.”

“Doesn’t everything?”

“Have you ever said to her how your life would be

incomplete without her?”

Setting: Beekman Place. The usual Penthouse. It’s

almost summer.

Hmmmmm.

“I haven’t seen a movie in ten years.”

“Oh God, I’m seeing double.”

“You’re the one he’ll never forget.”

“Will you keep it on while I get in bed?”