We wait and wait and wait.

No three minute photograph we.

The photomaton is obstinate.

Says, One is not satisfied

with mediocrity: A painting I must produce.

All day I sit hoping for perfect subject

and by chance you arrive! For you

I will produce Van Goghs, Monets, a Rossetti

for your wife, a real come n get me.

So lovely you two, so in love, so not blue.

And when at last at Montparnasse you demonstrate

such patience, such worthiness – I knew it! – I will

not spit out nor drop, but gently

hand to you this work. The souvenir

that lasts forever (and four euro at that!)

Remember me when thinking of Paris .

Remember everything of this day.

09/27/05 , The Dome, Montparnasse