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JOE RICHEY
Pluck another sonnet
for a good man gone down
I knew a man Orlovsky in the early Eighties
Comic book of characters, beat
poets, some woman named
Peter’s banjo would play while folks got laid
Til Allen asked him please, please . . .
Mr Peter Orlovsky, Mr Banjo Suspenders
Dance . . .
Month-long sits, big ass shits, and minstrel fairies
East and West
But most the time got high on fire escapes and in Polish bars
on the
Prayed as he died, poets by his side
Clicking their beads . . .
Mr Peter Orlovsky, Mr Banjo Suspenders
Dance . . .