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                    “I wanna go with yew,”

and how he drove her to her house

      and said “I’m giving you a last chance”

      and how she leaned her head on his

               shoulder and said

                    “Anywhere you’re goin take me”

      and how he

               took off her pants

          and she said that he shd take off his pants

               and he wouldn’t take off his pants

      and how they’d have some

          love play like everybody

      and then, he’d drive her home,

                         but when he’s out at a bar

      if anybody looks at his girl

he looks ’em in the eye and snaps his finger & says

                         whatter ya lookin like that fur—

      and out in a bar alone,

               anybody’s fair game for his love.

So I sat an I listened,

      and I brooded in my beard

          and saw he was ugly eyed

      though his voice beautiful Edward Carpenter.

Now I’m lying here

      Cabinette in complete darkness

          Airfields passing by,

               Stars, a few dim white fixed friendly

                    in blackness outside

               the modern railroad window

                    doubled to reflect

                                        passing gas—

“Matter-babble behind the ear” six years ago—

Old poetry grows stale,

      forlorn, as always forlorn

“Ah love is so sweet in the Springtime,”

      Jeanette MacDonald sang

          three decades ago—

      on marble balustrade in giant darkness

          downtown Paterson Fabian Theater balcony

          I wept, How soft flesh is—

Watching boyish Ronald Reagan

          emote

               his shadow

                    across the Thirties—

                         Same black vastness

                              pierced

                                   by emotion,

          melancholy toward the stars—

Political planets whirling round the Sun,

                    consciousness expansion,

          earth girdled by telegraph wires, Edward,

          they never dreamed of television then.

Railroad chugging thru yr thighs,

      clear your throat,

          lie there in the dark,

               cough with cancer

                    close your eyes …

I didn’t even dream, passing Tehachapi

      and woke, sleepy numb, reluctant

          to face my own language.

      But came back to it,

          tape machine

               passing Mojave,

                    evening ease,

                              Na-mu sa-man-da mo-to-nan o-ha-ra-chi ko-to-sha so-no-nan to-ji-to en gya-gya gya-ki gya-ki un-nun shi-fu-ra shi-fu-ra ha-ra-shi-fu-ra ha-ra-chi-fu-ra chi-shu-sa chi-chu-sa shu-shi-ri shu-shi-ri so-ha-ja so-ba-ja se-chi-gya shi-ri-ei so-mo-ko

The universe is empty.

Click of train

      eyes closed … the long green courthouse building

          “Like a monster with many eyes.”

               On valley balcony overlooking Bay Bridge,

                    a horse in leafy corral…

600 Cong Death Toll this week

          language language

                    escalating

“and the honor & the glory will go to him who speaks

with the voice of a man of feeling,” said Walter Lippmann

                                   face creased w/ wrinkles,

                                        Bakersfield Gazette.

               Wear beads, live

          in small polkadot tent, tasseled rooftop

                    in Bixby’s Canyon middle

               peaceful Ashram

          “It’s mine, it’s mine, I don’t want anybody else own

               my piece of land private special from Police”

               … I must be criminal, mind

                                        wanders

               nailing down roof boards—

               tell him I stopped at the bar.

No time No time Sam Lewis—

               Oh—No time Carolyn,

                              No time now, Neal.

Do you love me?

      No, I’m an awkward jerk that’s been around yr neck for

          so long you got used to it & kinda fond.

      The salesman’s eyes close,

          he stands his jacket off

               tie hanging down white shirt

                    You run ’em a merry chase, Son?

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