BIRDS IN THE FREEZER

I was instantly angry when I saw Katrina van Grouw’s The Unfeathered Bird in the window of Labyrinth Books in Princeton. After all, had I not definitively nailed the subject of unfeathered birds in my poem with that title?

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GRAY CAT

Dogs are omnivores. Canned dog food is usually vegetation tricked-out with a chemical gravy. Cats are carnivores. If they don’t eat meat they die. Cat shit is highly nutritious. Dogs happily eat cat shit. It’s not a lovely sight. Canine visitors appall my cat. Cats bury it to keep it from the dogs. The Greek word for dog is cynic.  As the alchemists might put it, cats are noble; dogs are base.

HALLOWEEN

Anne Turyn took an earlier photo of Allen wearing the lone ranger mask. Then Allen gave me the mask. We were reading our poetry in Washington Square at the end of the 1982 Village Halloween Parade in support of Daniel Berrigan and the Plowshares 8.

JACK SPICER

He turned to me in the bar at the bar he turned to me & said he asked me do they he said take a lot of drugs in Vancouver or was it do you.

It threw me like they say off but boy did I know who he was.
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