Simon Adamson

The Persistence of Memory


Salvador Dali Museum

Paris France

 

As I enter the museum

I notice that it is like a canvas in which

Mr. Dali himself has thrown his life work into

 

As I walk through its halls

I am looking for the smallest most surreal details

That the author has hidden almost like ants in paintings

 

As I look at the brass sculptures

The sway like mighty pythons in the ways the convulse and digress

In areas that are almost to two-D

 

As I climb the stairs to the top floor

I smell my breakfast in a café where they have prepared

The most overplayed delicacies of France that are encased in a glass cage

 

As I leave bastion of art and culture

I notice that today is my last day in France

And I think what a day well spent





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