The Necessity of Poetry
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BRIGHTLINGSEA SOUNDS GOOD


Assuming an art world is really out there
thanks for your letters & poems
winter approaching

this hot-line realist
somebody in Brightlingsea
looking at Asylum Poems

negative takes
like the Japanese Duck Pop
(you pull the duck inside out thru its own asshole)

here's the tentative table of contents
then off to Ratners
Stevie Winwood at the next table

(big dairy restaurant)
'culture' - consciousness seems inspiring
(Rivers? Warhol? Johns?)

I sort of remember where that is
Life in New York...easy to get into
makes you wonder where you'll go with it

some birds are chirping
'A Hundred Locomotives in The Roundhouse'
now working in Bolinas

north of San Francisco
something like 8 a.m.
1:30 in New York

how far is the nearest Guston?
'At Home With The Berrigans'
Brightlingsea sounds good

as Joyce said a pier is a disappointing bridge
'Young Writers Say They Don't Read'
so what is going on OUT THERE

an occasional 'head'
'We All Come From The Stars'
a record player, for instance

in Clark Coolidge's 'reductive' style
untyped up
Meanwhile, Larry and Lewis have been collaborating alot

driving around and smoking in Guston's image-field all along
the scholarship scene
104 Greenwich Ave

a gloved hand pointing in from an edge
a little writer's block
round & round & round

Tom Clark says the indeterminate plot ricochets
'Dear Tom'
Bobby Seale went on trial yesterday, for murder, in New Haven