Two Ways of Looking at Greece

How Paul Wittenberger Invented the Constitution

Beside the Roman Empire

Or beneath

Absorbed

Assembly of Words

In Greece

Beside the wild clear waters

Sometimes he makes sense

Like Benjamin Franklin

Of the Mediterranean

[Editor’s note: you no jack shit about geography]

Flows the St Lawrence River

I’ve been on it

Beside Bodega Bay

Lol

Fog so thick I froze to death

Susanna don’t you cry

Bird’s eye view

Of Bodega Bay

The birds hovering

In The Birds

One strikes a boy with a hose

In the gas station

Beside a man smoking a cigarette

The spark ignites a conflagration

Like the time as a newspaper boy

I turned around a corner

Around 5 pm in Ottawa

Long after dark

And my friends were burning

In that large frame building

On the top of the hill

[Editor’s note: where did that come from?]

Firemen’s hoses against the ice

Freezing beside their windows

In Ottawa

A lot of them died

Burnt to death

Coldest capital

feeling-wise

Twenty-three below

On the flames

In the building

HSB honey

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of China

HSBC

In Shanghai

Assembly of Words

Silly me

I think of the Constitution

Two things about Paul

[Editor’s note: Jesus another total cancellation]

The guy embarrasses me

Sometimes I can’t even read the poetry

Beyond the first few words

Because it is so good

Gives me shivers

No! Not this!

Quoth the Raven

Nevermore

Cuts to the core

So divine

I have his book on my desk

Along with

You know Blake and Shelley

And some other American poets

[[Hegel interdicted:

[[You have no idols

[[before you

[[Shiver in the morning

[Shiver in the evening

[[Shiver at supper time

[As the old song goes

[Be my little sugar

[And love me all the time]

Poet for all seasons

[Editor’s note: are you sure

[the right poet?]

He said the other day

He might get

Hegel

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