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A Day at the Getty

Travertine limestone like the tomb of a pharaoh, piled in gamboling curves toward the misty LA sky. Unlikely rain pounds the slick rock stairs, unlikely children

Gigi Philomena Lara Luca

yuppies

man in the white belt hippack bruno magli, wife in j. crew blackberry in hand

hippies

tall redhead and fuzzy bespectacled s.o. pentagram and hemp shoes

And us. Products of wonder and desire strolling through images of beauty and regret.

Unlikely the Chinese paper art downstairs from Rembrandt van Rijn. Unthinkable the sudden sunlight, the dappled mud of the gardens.

Opulent and beautiful, free to all who come up this hill. The best of three continents assembled in the name of our benefactor, J. Paul.

I have been there with everyone whom I have really loved.

I have kissed all those that mattered; our echoes are embedded in those rough-hewn stones. I embraced her in the muted shine of blonde hallways. I led him while he sniffled to the view of the sea. I felt his arms around me as we walked today. I remembered them all in a Venetian flask, a bronze sphinx, the objects I deposit memories inside like messages in a bottle for my future self to find.

I have always liked it better in the rain.

Tonight I sleep with the echoes of awe, with the images of Fate and Christ and Desire burning behind my eyes. I curl beside the Odalisque and beneath the Chollo in the park in 1986. I am planning already my next foray to Fragonard, my revisit to illuminated manuscripts.

Have you been?