Richard Brautigan

Nice!

I really feel that Brautigan, Kerouac, Ginsberg, & other great American Writers of the last 50 years should be taught alot more in colleges & high schools.

brautigan is a very underrated poet.

Here's a couple Brautigan poems-

'DISCOVERY'
The petals of the vagina unfold
like Christopher Columbus
taking off his shoes.

Is there anything more beautiful
than the bow of a ship
touching a new world?

'THE MEMOIRS OF JESSE JAMES'
I remember all those thousands of hours
that I spent in grade school watching the clock,
waiting for recess or lunch or to go home.
Waiting: for anything but school.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James
for all the time they stole from me.

Here's a very recent poem I wrote, the title of which is a nod of sorts to Brautigan-

’rentalcarp’
Plastic metaphysic surgeons
offer up
paradigms for a
pair of dimes
Whole cultures can shift
on a (I dont
rhyme coins w/ coins)
Our leaders are mere
carnival barkers
we buy into the promises
underneath rubber duckies
No passion
No fury
No Moloch,
whatsoever
We have but an Excuse
capitalized in hole-i-ness

Bother not checking my
metre, I owe much
for whatever its worth
Four Buffalo (nickel) Springfields
that grant me a paradigm?

No metre for no Moloch
No eyes for all before me
blind to emptyness
holyness
busyness
not missing this

But your eyes,
Reader,
pierce me & string
diamonds along
disfigured aortas

Whole-i-ness.