The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (24 page)

What can you say

at all?

NOTHING

However, it’s easy to keep

talking

if

it’s what you do. . . .

MEN
                         
                     
WOMEN

SPEED

What I like is

ASTERISKS

They’re so

Bold, confident, like you

have a plan, you’re in

control, you’ll be back

in a minute.

“Man, you’ve got to
do

something
about that handwriting!

It’s Terrible!”

Lorenzo Thomas

Said That

to me

in 1962.

I didn’t.