Day 29: Ferlinghetti Didn't Recognize Me

[DocCon]

Ferlinghetti Didn't Recognize Me
4/29/2019

There was the time dig
a substitution was made
spent the day working at
CityLights man North Beach
and all living the not-so-secret
dream to connect become a part
of a servant to the lineage poets
artists madmen and a friend who
never asked me back said I
gotta do so you want to fill
in be part of the bop the
boring boring once you
‘ve been in it awhile
day-to-day grind
and I said MAN
hella-hella-way-
cool and they
sd without
Referenc-
ing

Black Mountain College
Never ever say that sh*t again
And so there I was fumbling
with the System old-old-school
kept wondering when they would
drop the abacus on me saying
we don’t do calculators here
because the AI war will be lost
And we don’t want them sending
their drones back in time to mess -
up a good thing when who should
walk in but Lawrence Monsanto
Ferlinghetti and he says Are you
new? Just like that as if he didn’t
know his own store as if he
couldn’t see the faded
scars on my finger -
tips from my cut -
ups and razor
phase

or all the times
becoming the Best Poet
Possible led to irresponsible
disreputable unethical behavior
eventually delivering me newborn
on the left- coast and so I sd
after too long a hesitation
in a whisper laden with
discontent I suppose
so and he said
I swear he said
That makes
sense.

[Tracy Mitchell]

Somehow, that makes sense.

[ajduclos]

There you go again - amazing... 
Aj