Thursday 25 March 2004
6th day of Spring
6th day of the Moon
48th year of the Space Age

Tijuana, Baja California

not apo strophe remember

reading what I write I notice a certain
laziness of grammar no capitals often few
unless  C A P I T A L S   I    WANT   TO   S C R E A M    HERE    THI

IS an example                 but i cannot
                              take the credit
it was all suggested to me by another poet
as only a child I read e.e.cummings

my parents read archy and mehitabel

but I rebelled against publishing

until now I have it in my mind

     to make it 
     my  self

.

     So .

There is no question.  The method is true.
Pick up a pen and write.  Set your
fingers on the keyboard and type.

At last it has all become
disjunction

                                    between one hand
                                    clasping pen and
                                    ink on paper
and an other
clickity clack
typitty
whack

set                                 and the high class
                                    touch of class
                                    working class
                                    professional class
                                    proletariat class
                                    go to the head of the class
                                    you handled that with a real sense of class

                                    glass cystal shatter

                                    in Mexico class is
                                    everything as in the U.S.
                                    but   d i f f e r e n t


there, here, both
the men in suits
rule this world


            W H Y    T H E    H E C K     D O      Y O U      T H I N K



             a   shoe - shine


IS    so        g.d. important
                                        a n y     w h e r e     h o w     y e s






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           "  g l a s s  "     IS NOT EQUAL TO     "  c l a s s  "
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             in the difference between reality and a word
             sometimes one, sometimes the other, some times

             each                               both

                  captured
                            &
                                R E  -  l e a s e

             to the 
                          next reader

                                                    y o u  .
             ¿ No ?
                                                 .  Y e s  .

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