9.23.2003

I always hope for poems when the rain

I always hope for poems when the rain
comes, fluent in disaster

at the Boston Public Library
(students on field trip)

Stephen Spender's account of
1968 The Year of the Young Rebels

Spender & his associates
have been an obsession over

over the last couple years,
his journals (published in the 1980s)

at home, new typewriter ribbon for the
Olivetti Underwood (sky blue) at home

it could be an addiction (reading & writing)
this moving toward texts, always

how will this change my notebook?
will the machine write back?

will its voice be as sinister
as electro-voice OK Computer?

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