ALEX KATZ'S PARADOX

Doing up portraits
in a down town gallery
of poet acquaintances
at chance meetings
in more plucky passages
of Lally and Berrigan
brushing a pitying time
in a world of Alex Katz,
to spill your surprises
and the core of paradoxes
to fulfill your age's peace
from Manhattan requirements
in the sum of innocence
added to a gritty pattern
of your Big Apple city.