I remember you well, in...
the Chelsea Hotel
“The Chelsea
was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms,
each a small universe”
-Patti Smith, “Just Kids”
Here’s Room 506, It’s enough to make you sick, Bridget’s all wrapped up in foil, You wonder if she can uncoil, Here they come now, See them run now, Here they come now, Chelsea Girls. Here’s Room 115, Filled with S & M queens, Magic marker row, You wonder just high they go, Here they come now, See them run now, Here they come now, Chelsea Girls. Here’s Pope dear Ondine, Rona’s treated him so mean, She wants another scene, She wants to be a human being. Here they come now, See them run now, Here they come now, Chelsea Girls. Pepper she’s having fun, She thinks she’s some man’s son, Her perfect loves don’t last, Her future died in someone’s past, Here they come now, See them run now, Here they come now, Chelsea girls. Dear Ingrid’s
I AM AN ANTI-CHRIST I AM AN ANARCHIST DON’T KNOW WHAT I WANT BUT I KNOW HOW TO GET IT I WANT TO DESTROY THE PASSERBY CAUSE I WANT TO BE ANARCHY NO DOGS BODY ANARCHY “Eyeing the traffic circuFOR THE UK IT’S COMING lating the lobby hung with SOMETIME AND MAYBE I bad art. Big invasive stuff GIVE A WRONG TIME in STOP unloaded on Stanley Bard A TRAFFIC YOUR exchange for rent. The LINE hoFUTURE DREAM HAS SURE tel is an energetic, desSEEN THROUGH perate haven forBEEN scores of CAUSE I WANT TO BE ANgifted hustling children ARCHY THE CITY HOW from every rung ofINthe ladMANY WAYS GET WHAT der. Guitar bums and TO stonedI USE THE BEST out beauties YOU in WANT Victorian I USEpoets, THE REST IplayUSE THE dresses. Junkie NME I USE ANARCHY ITS wrights,broke-down ONLY WAY TO BE filmmakers, and THE French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.”
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel/ talking so brave and so sweet/ giving me head on the unmade bed/ while the limousines wait in the street
I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best/ I can’t keep track of each fallen robin/ I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel/that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.
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Charlotte Somerville Parsons Summer 2020