The goofy foolish human parade Passing on Sunday art streets Of Greenwich Village
Pitiful drawings of images on an iron fence ranged there by self believing artists with no hair and black berets showing green seas eating at rock and Pleiades of Time
Pestiferating at moon squid Salt flat tip fly toe tat sand traps With cigar smoking interesteds puffing at the stroll I mean sincerely naive sailors buying prints
Women with red banjos On their handbags And arts handicrafty Slow shuffling art-ers of Washington Square Passing in what they think Is a happy June afternoon Good God the Sorrow They dont even listen to me when I try to tell them they will die
They say "Of course I know I'll die, Why shd you mention It now - Why should I worry About it - It ll happen It ll happen - Now I want a good time - Excuse me - It's a beautiful happy June Afternoon I want to walk in -
Why are you so tragic & gloomy? And in the corner at the Pony Stables On Sixth Ave & 4th Sits Bodhisattva Meditating In Hobo Rags Praying at Joe Gould's chair For the Emancipation
Of the shufflers passing by, Immovable in Meditation
He offers his hand & feet To the passers by And nobody believes That there's nothing to believe in. Listen to Me. There is no sidewalk artshow No strollers are there
No poem here, no June afternoon of Oh But only Imagelessness Unrepresented on the iron fence Of bald artist With black berets Passing by One moment less than this Is future Nothingness Already
The Chess men are silent, assembled Ready for funny war - Voices of Washington Square Blues Rise to my Bodhisattva Poem Window I will describe them:- Ey t k ey ee Sa la o s o F r u p t u r t Etc. No need, no words to describe The sound of ignorance - This is the sound of ignorance - They are strolling to their death
Watching the Pictures of Hell Eating Ice Cream of Ignorance On wood sticks That were once sincere in trees - But I cant write, poetry, just prose * * * I mean This is prose Not poetry But I want To be sincere