Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Joanne Kyger

with Arthur Okamura (1985)


Earlier

Into the party, with engraved invitations, I am bored when 

I realize the champagne in the decrepit bowl is going to get 

filled up a lot. Well then, on the greens in front of the 

Mansion are walking Tom Clark and Ted Berrigan, what chums!
 
Do you think I could possibly fall in step, as they turn same 

to far flung university on horizon, gleaming. You bet your

life not. The trouble, says Ted, with you Joanne, is that 

you're not intelligent enough.

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