Awesome. Made me think of this other Gregory Corso poem -
I Am 25 With a love a madness for Shelley Chatterton Rimbaud and the needy-yap of my youth has gone from ear to ear: I HATE OLD POETMEN! Especially old poetmen who retract who consult other old poetmen who speak their youth in whispers, saying:-I did those then but that was then that was then- O I would quiet old men say to them:-I am your friend what you once were, thru me you'll be again- Then at night in the confidence of their homes rip out their apology-tongues and steal their poems.
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I Am 25
With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud
and the needy-yap of my youth
has gone from ear to ear:
I HATE OLD POETMEN!
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poetmen
who speak their youth in whispers,
saying:-I did those then
but that was then
that was then-
O I would quiet old men
say to them:-I am your friend
what you once were, thru me
you'll be again-
Then at night in the confidence of their homes
rip out their apology-tongues
and steal their poems.
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