Proverbial Sonnet (54)

We topped our Boboli with garlic and anchovies
and kissed so much we burnt the crust. We took
our halves into our first own living room
and sat down with a quilt on the worn blue rug
in front of the TV because we still didn't have
any furniture yet. I Shot Andy Warhol
was originally planned as a documentary
but the filmmakers found almost no footage
of Solanas or anyone to talk about her.
We fell in love with Lili Taylor for a little while,
and after, we wrapped around each other
like a metaphor. Puzzle pieces across
the floor, we snapped into. You had the hair
of a young Bernadette Mayer that year.*

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*I was picturing Mayer's photo as I
remembered it from in the back of An
Anthology of New York Poets. I thought
KC looked a bit like the little face
in that photo of Mayer in those days.
I don't have a copy of that anthology
on hand, but I think I still remember
the picture well enough to describe it:
swimming sleep, the waves mail,
December sun, soft April sky,
September notebook, snowy July,
eventual belly, zippered smile:
a lot of action in that captured lack
of motion, entire movements to understand.