Emile Gauguin.
You are Burgess Meredith
smoking a cigarette
after having failed
to a build a bridge
between Tahiti
and Moorea.
With a flower
behind your ear
you go fishing.
Your hair is white.
Your skin is brown.
Now you will paint
a picture of dragonfly
sunglasses. Now you will
read Henry Miller's
lesser known works
in a beach comber's
bungalo.
