for Robert Archambeau
Railroad barons had their damaged egos
Repaired by Robert Louis Stevenson; Sigmund Freud
And Mr. Hyde were only part of the problem. San Francisco
Came into prose poetry in the late 1960s.
Every candidate in the next election
Cries, “Change! Change!” for your protection.
There is something next, but it won’t be new.
I don’t have a very good poem for you;
It was written in opposition to Baudelaire:
The baby is crying, but the prostitute doesn’t care.
She’s reading the New York Times on art;
Her girlfriend, in the unisex bathroom, is coming apart.
Poe said Hegel believed the greatest philosophy is written for its own sake.
Sleep. Dream how it all started. Oh. Oh. Oh! Awake.