dude, this isn't fun. Brilliant and painful elegaic it is; but it's
not fun. Get thee hence to Oz, and stop for no one, not even the
wicked witch of the west.
Roger
On 5/16/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ... after Ted Berrigan after Frank O'Hara
>
> It's 7.26 a.m. in Linfen it's the 16th of May and
> it's probably 7.27 in Gibb River but I'm
> in Linfen I'm eating Chinese bananas and drinking
> Yunnan Mocha and I'm thinking of how Linfen is Old
> London town too how odd I usually think of it as
> something putrid like a Philippines' rubbish tip like Cher-
> nobyl like Hades
> I never thought on the Narrows
> Bridge I'd come to live in Linfen
> just to see coal-hearted businessmen and corrupt
> government officials take life away and call it
> Progress
> and I never thought Li Bai would be climbing Tai Bai
> flagon clinking teeth rotten from too much wine
> brush and inkwell splashing the peach blossom black
> when we were Young Poets reading Pound and
> watching the sun come up over North Cottesloe Beach
> across Rottnest Island
> I think I was thinking when I was
> ahead I'd be somewhere like Paris cool
> fit awash with wine and beautifully loved
> contemplating my new book of poems
> to be printed bi-lingual on fine art paper
> elegant dripping with ennui
>
>
>
>
> Notes: my wife is in Gibb River Station, far north of Western
> Australia; Narrows Bridge is in my hometown Perth. All else is obvious
> methinks. Just fun.
>
> --
> Andrew
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