Eli ordered another set of acrylic coated medium;

Igor disappeared into the editing room
& didn't
come out until he was out of coke & liquor;
Hel &
TT staying in LA as major movie-stars,

Ivan, thinking he'd gotten married
couldn't find his wife, leaving him
more confused; when she returned
she was a stranger to him &
Ivan casually walked away
when it appeared she didn't know him either;
the woman had a Russian husband
              who showed up a bit later,
a dead-ringer for the bewildered poet;        
Sergey, she says,  
                                               YA tol'ko [I just saw ur double]
                                                         ­ chto videl tvoy dvoynik;
ya don't say, Sergey replies

Ivan wanted          to get to the airport      
                               & out of the states;

he didn't make it;   the woman                                      driver
managing to get him back to her condo
& once there making him forgot
           about leaving the country                          for the time