{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "Ekphrasis",
  "keywords": [
    "Living",
    "Disappointment",
    "Failure",
    "The Body",
    "The Mind",
    "Arts",
    "Sciences",
    "Painting",
    "Sculpture",
    "Social Commentaries",
    "Cities",
    "Urban Life",
    "Class",
    "History",
    "Politics",
    "Popular Culture"
  ],
  "period": "",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/242742",
  "region": "U.S., New England",
  "text": [
    "When I left <NAME> the cut-out star on the window",
    "was whirling in the animation of the rich and hungry",
    "hunched over tables for a $30 sandwich and a Diet Coke.",
    "It was raining and the blurred glass of the galleries",
    "was the gold leaf of the Carrig Rhone frames\u2014",
    "<NAME>\u2019s dabs of Connecticut trees",
    "the diaphanous blue on the fleshy rocks,",
    "the melting opal of the shoals.",
    "Inside the Whitney the rain trailed down my face;",
    "and I found myself in a quiet corner staring",
    "at the pink face of <NAME>.",
    "I could still smell the smoldering high-tech plastic",
    "as it burned the air. In the whiteness of her teeth,",
    "in the almost aahh of her mouth and the half-drugged eyes",
    "under the lids of teal shadow, the air kept singeing my nose.",
    "Against the pale walls Marilyn\u2019s face dissolved",
    "like a stretched mesh and litho ink",
    "where plain form is a place of no desire",
    "like the empty mirror of the Hudson at dawn.",
    "In the fissures of her make-up, the planes of color",
    "led back and back behind her teeth longing\u2014",
    "to the deception by the Falls on her honeymoon",
    "(with <NAME> in",
    ")\u2014where we found her clothed",
    "and alarmed, and later desperate for the affirmation,",
    "of a President\u2019s limp dick and the crisp sheets",
    "the same color of these walls\u2014as my t shirt dries to my skin",
    "and the faintest scent of ground zero",
    "sifts down on the walls",
    "whiter than the wingtip vortices",
    "of melting in the morning light."
  ],
  "title": "Warhol / Madison Ave. / 9-11",
  "year": ""
}