As I Get Older I Perceive Life

Today America's On The Wrong Side Of The World Revolution. What I Mean By That Is, The World Revolution Is The People's Revolution, The Liberation Movements In All The Third World Countries, Which When Everyone Tries To Get Started The U.s. Stops.

If You Would Be A Poet, Write Living Newspapers. Be A Reporter From Outer Space, Filing Dispatches To Some Supreme Managing Editor Who Believes In Full Disclosure And Has A Low Tolerance For Bullshit.

We Have Seen The Best Minds Of Our Generation Destroyed By Boredom At Poetry Readings.

Well, I Didn't Know How To Draw Very Well Back Then, In The '40s And '50s.

Constantly Risking Absurdity And Death Whenever He Performs Above The Heads Of His Audience, The Poet, Like An Acrobat, Climbs On Rhyme To A High Wire Of His Own Making.