Sunday, February 19, 2012

Hotel Wentley Poems


Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia,
John Wieners, David Meltzer
San Francisco 1958


Hotel Wentley Poems
—for John Wieners
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A poem for dead poets

“And yet, we
must remember”
—John Wieners,
“A poem for early risers,”
Hotel Wentley Poems

For the poets then—
Like Wieners, McClure,
Lamantia & Meltzer

They’re done with us—
We’re done with them
They’re gone now

They’re defused after—
Tricking they’re out of it
The young hustlers

But their poems—
Like their upturned faces
Still gazing at us

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