Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Poems, Time II

 


Guy who writes poems about finding enough time to write poems.

Guy who read that Graham Greene used to finish his daily writing in two hours and then had to figure out how to spend the next 14 hours on a yacht in the Mediterranean.

Guy who crashes his car dictating poems into a phone on a commute to a job where they monitor against writing poems during work hours.

Guy whose friend quit being an engineer at Northrop Grumman to be a nightwatchman so he could "yell William Blake at a wall" during work hours.

Guy who remembers visionary saxophone player Pete who was a guard at the art museum which his friends called "Petey's Jail."

Guy who remembers Dano and his doomed project of writing 3000 literary limericks.

Guy who heard about a guy named Buddy Slaughter who drove his car into a wall in New Hampshire when he didn't become a famous folk singer.

Guy who knows two poets who managed not to work and then went insane.

(Guy who knows that if they had kept on working they may also have gone insane)

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