d.a.levy
from
praps i7



...

can you imagine
a poet with a bloody hankerchief
around his fist / returning home
each night to write the same poem
over & over for five-thousand years

tell me about
the games you play
im sorry / i dont
understand yr
world

perhaps i shud have
stayed dead

...


& Even the Greatest Zen Masters
have little more to say than

"never carry a lit cigarette
into the bathroom with you"

dont carry the sutras with you
either/
the results are
the same

you get THAT
sudden impulse
to throw that
smoke
sutra
into
the

ABYSMAL
dream waters