Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Poem (For Ted Berrigan)

 It is 9:39 pm and three minutes

after the last time

I looked at the clock on the VCR.

                                                   I memorize minutes.

The eight Path takes between Hoboken and the Prince St. station.

The twenty it takes me to walk a comfortable mile.

The single tic it takes for my eyes to spill 

                                                   my saddest memories.

The six it took me to write this all down

and call it a poem to you.





[2002]

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