Four Saints and a Demon Chewing Tabacco

Four Saints and a Demon Chewing Tabacco

These are the troubled times

of tortured folksongs,

before the last war

ended

and I am no reincarnation

of Dylan Thomas.

This is when I and I get married,

age together, die in Montevideo,

before the last war

ended

and rediscover the secret

of life

reincarnated as Allen Ginsberg

at the wake for Sal Paradise,

tobacco and Sunday paper in hand,

before the last war

ended.

I consider implants,

and reincarnate as Gertrude Stein.