EastWesterly
Review

Bean: Naked
by Bean Newton

E.W. Wilder's Foreword: A New Eclecticism

Patio Girls booming on the jambox,
curlers in her hair: thousand junkies
passed-out in the park: Coltrane barking
"catch me if you dare." The Greeks, of course,
and the Japanese, went by syllable count:
so much the better for them.

Shake from McDonald's cools my crotch,
spastic kids across the way;
the cash is on the counter, honey,
enough for us to play. Those pipes!

You sure can-

Sing it darling, sing it; make my poor ass feel
as beautiful as you look, make the lions and the lambs
lay, and steal away together.

The brook don't babble, and the brook don't sing;
the brook don't do nothing, but my poor heart sting.

Science has 17 different names for the Chinese elm.

Porch, Chair
18 Sides Monster Cream Wagon
Big M
Why I Like Recess

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