YOU WOULD BE LAUGHING

You would be laughing

if you know who Salvador Dali was

and I told you that I saw him in Barcelona

drawing a straight line on a checkered table cloth

and then after you laughed you would call me a liar

and then there would be the standard champagne in the face affair

and the apology of silence and then the What say we go to a bar?

I know one where I once saw  Jackson Pollack tied his shoe ever so neatly

in a million little pieces and you would say Who? a tupperware of champagne

safely golden and nestled resting and ready in your purse and there’s that bar right 

in front of us oh my why did you have to turn down the other street and to powder?