I want to let you know
brother of the far shore
what it is like to be
my own recorder of deeds
to be alive
here and now
out of work
back in college
music in my veins
and a galloping
cup of coffee
little girls
getting taller
and a wife
perennial beauty
like Venus
jewel of my forever sky
to amsterdam!
land of hippies
hash bars and coffee houses
far from the pall of the presidency
the smell of europe
cosmic earth mother
brother jack
so deranged
got a blunt stuck
up his nose
he’s feeling the fever
so hot with the
love for this one
and levon
for the love of a
hamster
let’s go to hamsterdam
not far from tunis
in the rapture
we will dwell
swilling from
our private well
we’ll reinvent the gods
all the myths of the ages
and in the blue swirl
of the burroughsian night
we will fly