It is a nation of nothing but poetry . . .



It is a nation of nothing but poetry

The universities are sties   John Wieners

has suffered the most   Catholics

have a shame of the body   The soul

lives in the body until it escapes   Main Street High Street Court

where my auto

threw itself over

the crosswalk   The sign read



your body

is to drop

its load



                   Your body

is a holy

thing



                Your body

is a wave

of Ocean



                        Your eyelids

will reveal your soul, your mouth will

                                                                  your clothes will fall

as you do



November

1962

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