Dream Song 22

77 Dream Songs (1964)

Of 1826

I am the little man who smokes & smokes.I am the girl who does know better but.I am the king of the pool.I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.I am a government official & a goddamned fool.I am a lady who takes jokes.

I am the enemy of the mind.I am the auto salesman and l—ve you.I am a teenage cancer, with a plan.I am the blackt-out man.I am the woman powerful as a zoo.I am two eyes screwed to my set, whose blind—

It is the Fourth of July.Collect: while the dying man,forgone by you creator, who forgives,is gasping ‘Thomas Jefferson still lives’in vain, in vain, in vain.I am Henry Pussy-cat! My whiskers fly.77 Dream Songs (1964)