John Wieners Interview

John Wieners Interview
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Charley Shively

“fashionable to use
dreams in poetry”
—Charley Shively,
Gay Sunshine Interviews

how important—
are your dreams for
your poems?

they seize—
the waking day
i transpose them

nothing like a young—
guy’s nocturnal emission
while he’s wide awake

Memories

“broken-hearted memories”
—Charley Shively,
Gay Sunshine Interviews

did you do a lot—
of nights on the town
in san francisco?

i’d change my—
rectal suppository
every once in awhile

like for a hot—
raunchy night on
the town so gay

The Audience

“and your audience?”
—Charley Shively,
Gay Sunshine Interviews

i’m a whim of farouk—
a rimbaud dumped on
the fucking miami beach

audiences are pigs—
beauty parlor whores
miami beach tourists

i’m a hotel maid—
john baptist’s head in
a bedpan bleary-eyed