The taste of rain —Why kneel?
Man is not worried in the middle Man in the Middle Is not Worried He knows his Karma Is not buried
Butte Magic of Ignorance Butte Magic Is the same as no—Butte All one light Old Rough Roads
But a tree has a long suffering shapeIs spread in half by 2 limbed fate Rises from gray rain
Birds singing in the dark —Rainy dawn.
April doesnt hurt here Like it does in New England The ground Vast and brown Surrounds dry towns
“Tryna get to sunny Californy” — Boom. It’s the awful raincoat making me look like a selfdefeated… murdering imaginary gangster, an i… a rueful coat, how can they unders…
The stars in the sky In vain The tragedy of Hamlet In vain The key in the lock
And how sweet a story it is When you hear Charley Parker tell it, Either on records or at sessions, Or at offical bits in clubs,
Sweet sad young tenor Horn slumped around neck Bearded full of junk Slouches waiting For Apocalypse,
Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million d… He was Tight Frog waits Till poor fly Flies by
I keep falling in love with my mother, I dont want to hurt her —Of all people to hurt. Every time I see her
The wheel of the quivering meat conception Turns in the void expelling human… Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nit… Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan
I lie on my back at midnight hearing the marvelous strange chim… of the clocks, and know it’s mid— night and in that instant the whol… world swims into sight for me
