Paris

                                                                           Monet, Chiesa di Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1867

    Childcity, Aprilcity,
    Spirits of angels crouched in doorways,
    Poets, worms in Hair, beatiful Baudelaire,
    Artaud, Rimbaud, Apollinaire,
    Look to the nightcity-
    Informers and concierges,
    Montparnassian woe, deathical Notre Dame,
    To the nightcircle look, dome heirloomed,
    Hugo and Zola together entombed,
    Harlequin deathtrap,
    Seine generates ominous mud,
    Eiffel looks down - sees the Apocalyptical ant crawl,
    New Yorkless city,
    City of Germans dead and gone,
    Dollhouse of Mama War.

                                                                                                                       
    Gregory Corso.