Two Legends

Famously in the twentieth century Frank OHara spends his lunch hour stepping out of the Museum of Modern Art to type poems on shop demonstration typewriters. Following his accidental death on Fire Island he becomes a legend in his own lifetime. Watsons extended riff on these lunch perambulations addresses this first legend.An interlude follows in which OHara and his friends emerge from MOMA to see figures from the legendary past.The second legend is the tale of Cupid and Psyche in which awakening innocence wicked sisters and mysterious identity collide with the all-too-human frailty of the gods.Herculean tasks are set. And just as Frank OHaras lunch hourtakes on legendary status so in Watsons treatment Psyche finds herself at times in touch with twentieth century celebrity.