TIME OF WELL BEING

0'Hara is gone
like lobster meat
along the waterfront

Sunday's Times
hangs on
your obituary

a tongueless notice
to escape
the artist

the Bird becomes
my hand of a ripped
off needle

the church pages
Lenny Bruce
as heroine for

Billie Holiday's
''Bless the Child"
as O'Hara is remembered

in the Cedar Bar
Frank,you fresh monkey
among the field mice

of Central Park,
in a time of well being,
flames everywhere

strikes the innocence
of the subterranean,
James Dean swears.