You're an O'Neill drama, You're Whistler's mama

You're Camembert

 Shining luncheon shoes in 

 his airy atelier in the

 West 50's, the American vet-

 eran hummed a tune in time

 with a worn buffing cloth,

 snapping.

 Damned if he didn't know his

 market. Damned if he'd ever

 forget what he'd danced to.

 Our mentors say, we've al-

 ways had unfortunates. Now

 there is a Republican can-

 didate, for President, who

 vocally, vociferously does

 not respect them. Right.

 Especially their ordeal.

                           Who, am I glad,

                           is not alive to 
                              see this?

                         

                         

                        

Cole Porter

Anything Goes

  You're the Top

  fragment

1934

Saul Leiter

Shoes of the

  Shoeshine Man

1951

Mark Rothko

Black on Maroon

  Originally commissioned

  for the Seagram Building

  New York

Tate Gallery

1959

Thibaud Charon

undated