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Some of these people

really crack me up.

I’m doing a Center City reading

and talking with

a couple poetry comrades

about poetry, life

& all the usual bullshit.

Ginsberg gets slammed

by jealous wannabees

and Bukowski is toasted

by pansies afraid his ghost

will come back to kick their asses.

Of course, politics & coalitions

are mentioned

in the same breath

as love, rhythm & Kerouac.

And then the chat

took a turn toward the loony.

It turns out that one of the poets

is telling the other that he wishes

that he needed glasses.

“I’m thinking of going to a doctor

to get a pair so I’ll look more intelligent.”

“Yeah, glasses are cool.”

intones the other one

(pun not intended)

About this point

I’m feeling the distinct taste

of bile in my mouth

as the virtue of glasses

are being discussed

by these two poets

Now, I can’t grasp why

if God, Allah, Zeus

or whatever other diety

spiritual or secular

grants you good vision

why would you want

to tamper with the results.

Well, I find it insulting

to people with vision disorders

that someone blessed

with perfectly good eyes

would mess with them.

Guys like this should put less thought

into how they look

and more thought into how they write.

I thought of point this out to them

but I’m not very assertive.

And I remained silent not really sure

it would even be worth the effort.