"Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50?"To which can only answer ... well, um ... HELLO!
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti in an interview with Christopher Bollen.
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I think I see his point...How many in their 50s still see the world through fresh 16-yr old eyes?
ReplyDeleteOh, I know what he meant. I was just being childish....
ReplyDeleteStop kidding around, Joseph!
ReplyDeletehells-bells
ReplyDeleteI'aim still 16 years
old & writing
the same stupid love
poems to what's-
her-name just so's I
could get her
though now I frequently change
her name so she don't get hot-and-bothered
she still calls me
every year on my
birthday to remind me not to send her
any more of my adolescent love poems
as her 16 years old granddaughter my get
the wrong idea about how innocent we were
in 1956. Wld like to see Larry's poems from
when he was 16. probably odes to Big Mama
Thornton or, maybe Lana Turner ?
sure wish that I had kept those
poems of 56
years ago / and her replies
of course we knew that you knew what LF meant :