Advertisement, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 2007

We sat on the cathedral steps and saw the return of Sodom
across the street in a picture in the window, pure water
coming from the feminine globes of a man, another looking on
with either concern or lust, depending on the consumer.

Beside it another scene of two men stalking one another
like animals, and above, like the apex of the grand pyramid
of the Great Bathers by Cézanne, pouty-lipped as the rest of them,
a woman with her anonymous man wearing two day’s growth of beard.

It starts with the jeans and it moves to the life.
All this we saw on the steps of the church of the sainted namesake
of my beloved and she was horrified that I could even read the symbols.

© Dan Goorevitch 2007