Thursday, June 6, 2024

Ashbury, Koch and Ginsberg Jan. 26, 2013


  

I was never as good

A poet as you were

When I met him,

I could never impress

Him the way you could,

Lacking the natural

Talent you have,

Even though my professors

Saw me for more

Than I was,

When they saw you

For what you were,

Celebrating Ginsberg’s

Birthday once,

He looking over my body

Rather than my body of work,

While I mistook him

To believe me great

When all he really wanted

From me is to give him

A blow job,

Making me that much

More cautious

When it came to Koch

I felt so humble with him,

Knowing I could never

Satisfy him with anything

I might do,

Not even anything oral,

He, living in a whole other

Universe than mine,

A universe I could

Glimpse at a distance

But never get where

You got,

And I still can’t.


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