God Bless America 4

I finally caught up with the episode of Mad Men - noted by Nige - which stars that beautiful, beautiful book, Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency. I cannot imagine such a thing happening on British television. So, once again, God Bless America. These are the O'Hara lines from Mayakovsky which form the interior monologue of Dan Draper at the end of the show.

Now I am quietly waiting for

the catastrophe of my personality

to seem beautiful again,

and interesting and modern.

The country is grey 

and brown and white in trees,

snows and skies of laughter

always diminishing, less funny

not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of 

the year, what does he think of

that? I mean, what do I? And if I do

perhaps I am myself again.