If You're Too Open-minded; Your Brains Will

Poetry Can Change The World, Just Like Any Art Can Change The World, By Changing Consciousness. Of Course This Was The Great Slogan Of The Nineteen Sixites Hippies’ Revolution—enlarge The Area Of Consciousness, Which Quite Often Was Done By Psychedelic Means.

Beauty Stands And Waits With Gravity To Start Her Death-defying Leap

I Certainly Was Surprised To Be Named Poet Laureate Of This Far-out City On The Left Side Of The World, And I Gratefully Accept, For As I Told The Mayor, "how Could I Refuse?" I'd Rather Be Poet Laureate Of San Francisco Than Anywhere Because This City Has Always Been A Poetic Center, A Frontier For Free Poetic Life, With Perhaps More Poets And More Poetry Readers Than Any City In The World.

Poetry Is A Naked Woman, A Naked Man, And The Distance Between Them.

They Were Looking For A Stable, But We Didn't Have One. In Fact, We Weren't Very Stable Ourselves.