When I was a Poet

Everything was a Revelation

no detail less than Cosmic

When I was a Poet

When I was a Poet―David Meltzer (with nods to D.M., Abbie Hoffman, Ginsberg, Sanders, et al)

When I was a Poet

on a reverse Abbie H steal at City Lights

an agitprop book installation w/out much

enter or prizing, & no Peace Eyes here…

Everything was a Revelation

’cept 4 “defanged cuddly types like Maynard G

Krebs” digging your six-wing Serpent Power

fry our misspent powdered egg blues mama

no detail less than Cosmic

incl. line-out wrote for yrs truly

on David’s Copy, so sweet of you

hep to head mano a mano

When I was a Poet

at young Beat poet truly yrs was a lone

T.V. Baby Dobie Gillis poet trailing

a slow beater incidentally worth bah…