"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   monthes  years calendars

good bye  seconds ruins  photograph 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    blitzgrieg  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 tributes 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.