HOW TO TELL WHETHER YOUVE GOT ANGST ENNUI OR WELTSCHMERZ AFTER EATING AT ANOTHER MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN PITTSBURGH

are you dissatisfied
and
worried
in an introspective
overthinking
german way

youve got angst.

are you
so
tired
of
everything
about the world
and
the way it
is
with
a slow
suspiration
youve got ennui.

do you have sadness
for the
world that can never be
and
sensible shoes

youve got weltschmerz.

do you live
in
pittsburgh

do you dream of the

chile rellenos from bobby mercados
with maybe a
blue anejo margarita

robertos taco

for gods
sake

el pollo loco

if
so

you have all three

(i have
the sensible shoes)

Vincent Zepp about Vincent Zepp. Arriving at the time in history (including literary history) when I did. I was blessed to have such a rich tradition of poetry, art, music, and culture to available to me. This continues to allow my poetry to flourish in a rich loam of influences. The work I believe is representative of the best thoughts and intuitions of my generation of writers whose challenge is to move forward with the gifts given to us from previous generation of artists. From Ferlinghetti who opened my eyes to Pound and Eliot through the various significant literary and art movements of the 20th century. Then there was the haiku master Basho who showed us frogs leaping into the pond of our mind. John Berryman said our poetry should be something no one else could do. I’ve tried to focus on that idea.