A lot of people ask me about my drug poems at readings. There’s been one in every book except Begging for It, my first one (when I was still an angel). After that I wrote “Cocaine,” which ended up in Together and by Ourselves. And after that “LSD,” in
Alex, some people VISIT the country of poetry but it seems to me you’ve just set up a tent there and are roughing it in the wilderness of lyric 🙈 Love your work, is this what it feels like to be living in the time of Kerouac Ginsberg etc. ??? O’Hara????? Please. Your scraps are thrilling testaments to your commitments to life! THANK YOU!!!
Alex - I just found you. I'd never read your poems before. This poem is the first I read - I love it, as a whole and all it's little parts. It's funny that I should read it today, the anniversary of Albert Hofmann first synthesizing LSD, and also the great Terence Mckenna's birthday. I think they would love your poem, too. Thanks for sharing. Oh, also, so many pretty words for cannabis! I hope you find one you like.
Amazing.
This photo is my new wallpaper
Best line in modern poetry: The day I met you never ended for me.
There are hawks in New York City! Lots of them actually. :)
nice to know, Peter
also - lovely poem (should have led with that lol). Some of the hawks in ny have been pretty famous too - https://www.nycaudubon.org/our-work/conservation/urban-raptors/red-tailed-hawks-in-nyc
Alex, some people VISIT the country of poetry but it seems to me you’ve just set up a tent there and are roughing it in the wilderness of lyric 🙈 Love your work, is this what it feels like to be living in the time of Kerouac Ginsberg etc. ??? O’Hara????? Please. Your scraps are thrilling testaments to your commitments to life! THANK YOU!!!
thanks back, love back
Alex - I just found you. I'd never read your poems before. This poem is the first I read - I love it, as a whole and all it's little parts. It's funny that I should read it today, the anniversary of Albert Hofmann first synthesizing LSD, and also the great Terence Mckenna's birthday. I think they would love your poem, too. Thanks for sharing. Oh, also, so many pretty words for cannabis! I hope you find one you like.
my favourite poem in love by far
I am EMOTIONAL seeing the beginnings of that line. 🥺 And the fact that you don’t remember writing it!! I gasped!!