William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

Tag Archive for ‘The Lost Generation’

The Waiters (Long Live the Revolution)

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If there’s a connection between this simple new drawing and the old poem that follows, I don’t know what it is. But seeing it — seeing him — I thought I recognized a denizen of the old street-side cafés, an unknown, unsung member of the Lost Generation. The poem, of course, is utter foolishness, as all poems are that are purposely funny but true, and some days, like today, truer […]

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