“Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”

In The Early Morning Rain
To my family & friends          “Hello”
And money. With something inside us we float up

                                       Crash 
                            Take valium            Sleep 
                                       Dream & 

(2) photos of Anne
                        80 years old
                                          lovely, as always

It’s New Year’s Eve, of 1968, & a time
for Resolution.

I don’t like Engelbert Humpeldink.

Summer so histrionic, marvelous dirty days
is not genuine      it shines forth from the faces
littered with soup, cigarette butts, the heavy

Red-faced and romping in the wind
I too am reading the technical journals, but
Keeping Christmas-safe each city block