you
are the poet i never met
but
always admired
through
the pain the rain of not
knowing
the problem
of
the bank account never
being
strong enough to allow
one
to move or travel from the east coast to the west
i
could
never meet the one who
was
the one poet
who was one of the most important
not
so much for rescuing Ginsburg
and
the HOWL
but
for rescuing us
all
every
poet in the U.S.
for
we
can
say
ass,
tits ,penis and genitals without fear of losing our
poetic
resolve or our hope of ever being seen in print
for
i remember standing holding a sign for
the
end of apartheid, the end of war, and a better America
with
Jesse Jackson and June Jordan and Allen Ginsburg they spoke well that day
most
poets do
but
poets never know the power
of
their words
for
they spoke
of
an America
a
good land
a
land determined to build a
future
for its people
erase
the negatives of its past
rid
itself and the world of racism
and
plot
a future of peace
3/19/2021
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