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73 Poems

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if poetry were fun
and not crushed
(english classes say
desks should be small
and never written on)
and not cramped
by rules or meter
or other things you can
(feel)
only talk about

if poems were made
(only as cups are made
to hold water and wine)
only to hold images
and feelings and
the feeling that
things will only end
(when they should)

and if you were meant
to read these
and they
--rustle; quiet; rustle--
to read you

then you
would find this book
(this incomparably beautiful
little book)
and you would a
find a tree
(together)
and you would sit down
beneath it
and lock eyes
and be happy

This collection utterly brilliant in many ways, but the poems do not contain the same multi-toned language or endless imagery of so many of his earlier ones, or the satirical tone of others.
He does however, explore a wider range of subjects and sentiments.
All in all, it certainly outdoes the later work of authors like Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who is actually still alive), Allen Ginsberg, and WIlliam Wordsworth.