April doesnt hurt here Like it does in New England The ground Vast and brown Surrounds dry towns

The great hanging weak teat of In… on the map The Fingernail of Malaya The Wall of China The Korea Ti—Pousse Thumb

Describe fires in riverbottom sand, and the cooking; the cooking of hot dogs spitted in whittled sticks over flames of woodfire

But a tree has a long suffering shapeIs spread in half by 2 limbed fate Rises from gray rain

The wheel of the quivering meat conception Turns in the void expelling human… Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nit… Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan

And how sweet a story it is When you hear Charley Parker tell it, Either on records or at sessions, Or at offical bits in clubs,

I lie on my back at midnight hearing the marvelous strange chim… of the clocks, and know it’s mid— night and in that instant the whol… world swims into sight for me

Man is not worried in the middle Man in the Middle Is not Worried He knows his Karma Is not buried

One flower on the cliffside Nodding at the canyon