FAILURES DIARY KYOTO
July 2013
Ice Cream Part II
failure to let my son enjoy his ice cream in peace.
Whalen
was here twice
for several years in total,
went back to SF kept up
the zen thing as long as he could,
before famously piling
his empty vessle on
a bed of frozen raspberries,
an effort to lighten his
friends’ bereaved minds
rexroth, snyder, kerouac, kyger, beltrametti,
corman lived here
practically his whole adult life
and me? tryin’ to get some poems
out of Kyoto all I got’s so far
are some notes about a misunderstanding
involving my change
from buyin’ the kids ice cream
Ice cream which my son, who is four,
decided he didn’t want, and in his wisdom
realised he needed to throw out
and which in my wisdom, being more
than ten times his age, all I could do was
complain and, tell him I wasn’t going
to buy for him again
July 2013
Ice Cream Part II
failure to let my son enjoy his ice cream in peace.
Whalen
was here twice
for several years in total,
went back to SF kept up
the zen thing as long as he could,
before famously piling
his empty vessle on
a bed of frozen raspberries,
an effort to lighten his
friends’ bereaved minds
rexroth, snyder, kerouac, kyger, beltrametti,
corman lived here
practically his whole adult life
and me? tryin’ to get some poems
out of Kyoto all I got’s so far
are some notes about a misunderstanding
involving my change
from buyin’ the kids ice cream
Ice cream which my son, who is four,
decided he didn’t want, and in his wisdom
realised he needed to throw out
and which in my wisdom, being more
than ten times his age, all I could do was
complain and, tell him I wasn’t going
to buy for him again