I spent the day in Albuquerque beginning the pre-cataloging of his papers. I filld 9 boxes with correspondence & manuscripts. there were letters from Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Williams, Theodore Enslin, Kell Robertson, Tony Moffeit. & thousands of poems handwritten in notebooks on sheets of paper on almost anything he had handy [...]
Mugs
so it’s a sunny saturday
& I’m reading Todd Moore
(Dillinger as a pre-Bogart Bogart)
& I’m drinking Moka Java
from the tan mug with blue lines
that got me thru Kent ayems
& I’m wondering how
the thing we drink from
shares a word meaning face
so I throw Moore on the floor
& get out my college Webster’s
mug n. [...]
Todd Moore and Alex Gildzen
STREET OF POETS TUCSON
so I cd tell
Mark Young
I walkd Congress
to Cafe Magritte
it isn’t
anymore
so I went
down the block
to Hotel Congress
where Dillinger
was staying
when he got caught
I thot abt
Todd Moore
as I ate ahi
sorry Mark
1.
“An aeroplane
in the hands
of Lincoln Beachey
is poetry”
sd Orville Wright
first to fly
upside down
Beachey wore
a diamond stickpin
his last loop
dumpd “the divine flyer”
into San Francisco Bay
2.
“To Slim Gaillard
the whole world
was just
one big orooni”
wrote Jack Kerouac
sd to date
Ava & Lana
Slim wrote a dictionary
for his own language
playd piano
with hands
upside down
he sent us
out there
with the floy floy
3.
“I wish
I looked
like Richard [...]
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