Mark?
Oh, he’s dead now,
Not much worth knowing
If you ask me
And I know all what that
Entails, suggests, reveals,
Means dead
Not much worth knowing
Or having
Ever having
Ever having had
Author: Franklyn Monk
Status: Shortlinks
My shortlink solution failed, some time ago…by the looks of it.
Reimplemented Jetpacks WP shortlinks for time being.
Extinction
I dunno
Maybe I’ve forgotten
How to write poems
Just as I’ve forgotten
How to breathe
And how to dance
How to talk
Maybe these are
Repertoire skills
A trinity of blessings
If you’ll forgive the math
HOWL: Dedication Allen Ginsberg
To
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet
Editor, Publisher and Defender of “Howl”
in gratitude for his comradeship over three decades
Missing all our appointments
and turning up unshaven
years later
old cigarette papers
stuck to our pants
leaves in our hair
Ginsberg, Allen. Dedication. Howl : Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts and Bibliography. New York, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. V. Print.