THIRTEEN: back to NYC: //Marina//good fortune, if firm and correct//mango cheesecake// it used to be....

nyc spring, 2010, photo Katya Grokhovsky

Marina. Skin melting, mango cheesecake, lucid: Complete tourist set of Middle-aged Germans, does she not pee all day long? Head in her hands, heavy and awake, white lights, Kate Gilmore's hills breaking through the male white cube, Boltanski, Balthazar cafe, DUMBO, Brooklyn, Chelsea boys, MOMA, Guggenheim, The Met, the bridge is beautiful, oh God it's a heavy rain, the squeezed freshly smell of the just-watered Earth -filled-room, the broken kilometer, quinoa salad, NY pizza,

Canal street and West Broadway, 2010, photo Katya Grokhovsky

Canal street, trucks and bags, you want handbag Miss miss miss, you need a handbag, the last bar in the world, German cigarette, classy and elegant to a particular smoker's taste, this is no longer new york, the high line, this isn't what it used to be, the 80's, do you know her she's also from Ohio, she lives two doors down from you, you have also lived here for 30 years? no?get off my roof it will leek, do roofs leek in Australia? PhD in philosophy and money, artist night, 5 dollar burgers, cherry wheat beer, where is new york, do you have spoons? false arrogance, the swimming pool space is closed, sex and the city 2 and a half stars, marina does not pee she holds it in for 9 hrs, emotional voyage to the dead, smoking in the bar circa tobacco, buckwheat crepes, opera cake, snow cone:

full satisfied attention span heavy 24hrs, whitney bienalle, the established feeling of glass walls how high how low what will I do for my art for art for my art? art: don't ask don't fear don't believe, long island iced tea, corona beer, cold sake, TV, two cats, he likes to be hugged all the time, who do you think I look like? what a woman, it used to be new york:

photo Katya Grokhovsky, 2010

melting soft and the hat, who do you think you are, actually the lady the lady let's see, turtles in Atlantic ocean, new york is not the same, the mall that is Manhattan, the city of you, overly consumed good fortune, mussels in garlic celery broth, poached eggs with salmon and melted cheese, baked brie with caramelized pear, shrimp, Coney island to be destroyed..
mixed up in the tender sticky soup of human,

Marina.