The Gershwin Hotel   #103
October 4, 1998
 

“Welcome Beautiful People”
A red horned firehouse
An Andy Warhol and
Dr. Suess collaboration
Yellow Walls beaten gray
by New York smog
Room 541
sheets that never stayed
on the mattress and a single
bathroom not intended
for five
A picture window
that could swallow three
and all the smoke our
lungs could produce
we painted each other's nails
and drank from the trough
of alcoholism
The window never closed
We never did