Classic Poem

Unwelcome news of the gross national day
death of Sandburg in Flat Rock
couple hundred miles west of me here
Flags at half mast today (24 July)
& he so taken with graves & toooooooooombs
is to be cremated & scattered around Remembrance Rock

So
lonnnnnnnnng
old
Carrrrrrrrrrl

Send / us
a post-
card

& tell
us where
you're staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaationed
come on you sons of bitches
do you want to live forever

The pee-pull
yes the
people

I was a lover of the pee-pull & going to be a communist until it developed that Dr. MacDiarmid
had that stand well in hand
& didn't need my help

he lately photographed in Peking
speaking in honour of bag-eyed Blake & vineyard-bearded Whitman
the poster picture of Blake like enough
but the Whitman most unfamiliar until you see that
the Pekinese make old Walt look just like Karl Marx

I happened to be in the “United” “Kingdom” when the doctor stood for parliament
it being understood by all & sundry that he would be the communist prime minister if his party received a majority

No voter I made the rounds of public places
with my private face (big eyes, big ears, dish antennas in all dimensions)
& number-two pencil JIM CROW MUST GO FREE THE PRISONERS
NO POPE & IN MEMORIAM JAMES JOYCE