"i want to escape..."  (Robert Frank Exhibit @ Scalo Gallery)

  
               - for Gregory Corso 





good bye
                 hope
                           unclear   nuclear    hope
good bye
                  volcanoes      fish    experts
                                                                     UFO's     &  foreign lands
good bye     elections
                                      & election fraud

good bye      fantastic operations  & sandwiches  5 cent penny candy   motel rooms
                           with  windows
good bye
                palm trees    daisies   & ideas
                dark silence  music    & the past

good bye
                     ode    pretty girls     birthdays    hrs.  minutes   months  years
                      calendars                good bye     seconds
ruins
photographs  of ruins
coffee cups
coffee
tea   cake
table
spoon

good bye
                   gesturing      space within emptiness    emptiness within space
good bye
                 blooming concrete        acanthuspaperchristmas                                                             good bye                                       
                   daddy    blitzkrieg  truth    & dark silent  music
                   shadows
good bye
                crowded rolls of film hanging like fly paper in a room occupied only
                                                                by     your        ghost
the image of winter
perched upon the sill    of my eye

good bye 
                 you    streets that i know    of my youth   middle age  & my demise
good bye
                 you  that  i have never known     will never know   & have forgotten

good bye       BELIEF                   medicines      & painful   conditions

good bye    
                  weather     postcards    differences  travelling     &  visitations
good bye
                 inventions  adversaries  & inventory

                                                hello    to   nothing

good bye    preparedness     distance    deception     & necessity
                  small  talk         big    talk    people who are gone

good bye                     to     tributes

good  bye          images      bullfights       speed   blinking images   & unbreachable
                         entanglements           good bye    vocabularies   purple potatoes     
&  holes
                              good bye     therapy    exercise     visitors   disaster  & you

good   bye to you          to how i look at you


         i want to escape       have to escape    need to escape   to  escape       escape.