Snap crackle pop

Friday, posted here about a photograph of
"George Plimpton's Cocktail Party
New York City.
Nov. 30, 1963"
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(Come to think of it, that was one week after you-know-what. Well -- the invitations probably went out a week before the day in dallas.
And -- not going to a party you already replied to -- isn't going to un-do what was Done.)
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(a humble poem about the photograph)

Snap crackle pop

A room vibrating

with elegant fun

Oval coffee table

Armchair, sofa,

slim end table

another armchair

Supporting

George Plimpton

and

"literary agent Maggie Abbott."

On back wall

picture, picture,

.....picture, picture,

............picture, picture

in front of the pictures and

beyond the sofa,

men standing

in groups of --

.....five, two, two, three,

.....and one standing,

.....one sitting,

Listening

to what

Truman Capote

is saying.

Tall slim glasses in people's hands,

two glasses

on the coffee table

Suits / ties - men.

The women: dresses and

one double strand of

pearls

One guy -- standing,

listening --

energetically (!)

Left hand in pocket

Right hand holding

tall slim glass

(all glasses are the same - ?!)

and white handkerchief

sticking up (peeking out?)

from suit jacket pocket,

upper left.

He seems about to levitate.

Windows. Curtains.

Pictures in between.

The PHOTOGRAPH

is black-and-white.

Conversation:

"Really? I hadn't heard that."

"When's his book coming out?"

"What did they think of that?"...

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The phrase "tall slim glasses" made me think of a song:

"Long Tall Glasses" -- Leo Sayer -- look it up; listen

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