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Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland


DOOMED TO REPLY

From
DOMINION and other poems
by Alan Russo, 1977

Cover art by Robert Branaman


doomed to reply
(last long look)
looming from the headlights of a billion billboards
idiot jowls flapping in the wind,
"Kilroy was here"
the signature of all things
leaking from the frayed edges of control.

Johnny tied his puppydog to a tree
and loved it.

He was wrong many times in the eyes of his family
but never in the eyes of the lord.

The tree grew up to heaven,
a perpetual fountain of care.



© 1977 Alan Russo; Page © 2011 George Laughead
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