POE-TREE MO. OUGHT 2
I come from the bank--Post and Powell--
balancing my booty, my bounty on my hip
and
snatched by the window of Border's
Books--
oh yes it's poetry month I forgot--
peruse display of this and that and that,
Complete Collected Alice Walker,
Sylvia Plath, Wyston Auden--
And what is this exed out and muddled
typescript?
'Out of the rhetoric and secret cackle
of poor human poetry'
with xxxxx and scattered excisions,
'the moral imagination of the weird
something
something edit soul of poetry
good to eat a thousand years.'
My god the actual once-blank piece of
paper
pounded out by young Allen on a dinosaur
on the 1950's cigarette-burned kitchen
table
of some speed-crazed dawn-dreary N.Y.
garret,
night fighting through to day in the
filthy windows,
bodies scattered round on the
bottle-strewn floor--
I do not HOWL but laugh out loud weeping
to see it.
© Marlowe
( New poem. Not published in
chapbooks )
John Marlowe PETROGYPH 
