POEM FOR A KPFK INTERVIEW – 9/16/83
(My honorary younger brother Dennis Holt had
told me that he forgot his poetry notebook
in a bus.)
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-Don’t lose your poems,
Barry Simons,
don’t lose your poems,
Dennis Holt!
-Lose your composure,
or even your jobs,
but please don’t lose your poems,
Barry Simons,
don’t lose your poems,
Dennis Holt!
-Lose your patience, your balance,
enthusiasm, shirts,
appetite, bearings,
control, inhibitions…
lose anything you want,
but please, don’t lose your poems,
Barry Simons,
please don’t lose them,
Dennis Holt!