Ode To Modern Art

Come on in and stay a while I'll photograph you emerging from the revolving door like Frank O'Hara dating the muse of modern art Talking about the big Pollock show is better than going to it on a dismal Saturday afternoon when my luncheon partner is either the author or the subject of The Education of Henry Adams at a hard-to-get- a-table-at restaurant on Cornelia Street just what is chaos theory anyway I'm not sure but it helps explain "Autumn Rhythm" the closest thing to chaos without crossing the border I think you should write that book on Eakins and also the one on nineteenth century hats the higher the hat the sweller the toff and together we will come up with Mondrian in the grid of Manhattan Gerald Murphy's "Still Life with Wasp" and the best Caravaggio in the country in Kansas City well it's been swell, see you in Cleveland April 23 The reason time goes faster as you grow older is that each day is a tinier proportion of the totality of days in your life