Reading poetry is not the same as writing it
- some think reading poetry is an event
others only read what they have written themselves -
I’m reading Corso, Ferlinghetti & Ginsberg
Again
Read them in the toilet mostly
On buses, trams & trains too
Read them aloud in darkened rooms
Read them in murmurs & north-western accents
Find them talking to me
Dreaming with me
Together we stake out my apartment
Awaiting the muse at 2 am
Gregory Corso turned 32 in 1963
I turned 32 in 2008
45 years difference, but man, I can relate
Ferlinghetti & the City Lights
I almost made it in ‘06
Ginsberg’s America is my Australia
After 222 years
She 40 thousand years
it’s time for a poem worthy of your crimes
The Beats were there when I started writing poetry
& when I stopped
They were there
Man, they were all there
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