Louise Landes Levi

        

 

I DREAM OF 2 WRITERS

I dream of Gregory Corso.

He is old now & very loving. Basically

he tells me I'm doing fine, doing all right now

but lack

DISCIPLINE.

He advises writing every day from lOAM-3PM,

or at least to sit at my typewriter.

He is very nicely dressed

& a perfect gentleman

in this dream.

 

-Bagnore l997

 

 

GREGORY/1992

 

2O

yrs. ago/No

(magic Bonpo number)

l3 yrs. ago/ You took me

in.

    yr.

               arms/

"delicata"/ you said,

 

at other times

you spat at me/ "jewess"

you said, now I'm "beautiful" a-

gain, "on the rebound"

 

"A/

natural 'druk-pa'\

they said

              about

                  you

 

I gave you a dollar

when I was l8,

Today you

     return

          the

                    offering,

 

Beloved/ cave man,

Beyond/ cave man VISION

 

You stole the golden mala

&

         wore

                 it

                    on

                             your

                                           tongue.

 

-NYC l992

Druk pa/ tib. drug=dragon/pa-person/ Drukpa is the name of the most essential school of the Kagyupa Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. A Tibetain saying is "Half of the Kagyus are Drukpas, half of the Drukpas are madmen & half of the madmen are the greatest poets & painters in Tibet.

© by Louise Landes Levi