Today I volunteered at the Poetry Projects Silent Auction. I am now the proud owner of many cool items. But the one I love the best is a broadside of a Ted Berrigan poem writ in 1970:
Scorpion, Eagle & Dove (A Love Poem)
November, dancing, or
Going to the store in the country,
Where green changes itself into LIFE,
MOVING ON, Jockey Shorts, Katzenmiaou,
A Chesterfield King & the blue book,
In OLD SOUTHAMPTON
you make my days special
You do Jimmy's & Alice's,
Phoebes, Linda's
Lewis' & Joannes too...
& Kathy's (a friend who is new)
& Gram's...
who loved you,
like I do,
once...
& who surely does so since
that 4th of July last,
A Saturday,
a day that left her free
To be with & love you
(& me)
(all of us)
just purely;
clean;
& sleflessly...
*
no thoughts
*
Just, it's true. As i would be
& as I am, to you,
this
November.
Ted Berrigan, 1970
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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