Wednesday, August 12, 2015

jim leftwich, poem

from Six Months Aint No Sentence
Book 127


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about hats whatever h
appened to Stickman?)
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by night my think our
poetry arrangements p
eople and in the book
the boolk estag corpo
ratet masters musters
mustard grass graspin
g from Madison Height
s to Greensboro (1974
), to The Jolly Green
Giant (summer 78), to
Greensboro, to Boones
Mill to Richmond (fal
l of 78) San Francisc
o (postcard from High
on Head Street) to 17
th at Castro (1979) t
o Greensboro to Madis
on Heights, to Eureka
to Portland to Eureka
to San Francisco Ashb
ury Schrader Waller (
eight of us wall-to-w
all sleeping on the k
itchen floor) Ashbury
Masonic Mission Stree
t Hotel Albert Broadw
ay & Columbus Hotel E
uropa (above Carol Do
da's blinking nipples
Baker Street Venice B
each Berkeley to Madi
son Heights to Charlo
ttesville (1987) to R
oanoke (2005), Lofton
to 525 10th Street SW