The influence of Apollinaire’s ahistorical poetics is seen, too, in an unpublished poem by Wojnarowicz, titled “Reading a little Rimbaud in a Second Avenue coffee shop.” As Apollinaire wrote in “Zone” of “standing at the metal counter of some dive / Drinking wretched coffee where the wretched live,” Wojnarowicz wrote of sitting in a coffee shop where “newspapers draped over the counter tell of the fall of the city.”54
