Yea, and I rise—
no grapes,
no gripes—
each breath an act of love.
Blacula (1972). Rocky Horror (1975). El Planeta (2021).
To our list, add Lou, too — his story eerily lesson-like, and relates —
though different, certainly, in its affect.
Gay nightclub noise bands formed
to silence Lou’s committee in head.
Enter John Cale, ex-Welshman
Radio tuned to foreign broadcast.
Out pops
“European Son.”
Artists escape to
New York at midcentury’s end.
42nd Street
Andy’s Film School
60s culture.
15-20 movie houses:
Here comes
new channels.
Here comes
LaMonte Young.
Very high spiritual states.
Long sustained tones.
Study of drone.
And along comes
Lou’s Syracuse buddy
Delmore Schwartz.
Add, too,
Jack Smith, Tony Conrad.
The drone of Western capitalism:
By Dream Syndicate Dazzled
By Dream We Dream
PS I LOVE YOU
To catch an evening screening of you, I hike downtown.
Seeming Lovers
ahead of me.
The Lovers
sit side by side
whispering in the dark.
“‘Tis my new favorite movie!” I tell myself:
made with masks all the more thrilling.
Plants kick in and
I relax,
Chasing happiness by my side.
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