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With you, Allen Ginsberg.</div> <div> And I couldn't care less!</div> <div> So, you are gay; I am straight.</div> <div> We're both poets.</div> <bR> <div> Oh, Allen, you must listen.</div> <div> You've no idea. We have so much in common.</div> <div> You love sunflowers; I love sunflowers, too.</div> <div> I know where they grow like natural Van Gogh</div> <div> Along the winding streets of Berkeley.</div> <bR> <div> There are so many secret gardens!</div> <div> And now the moon blooms--almost full.</div> <bR> <div> Come on, Allen. Won't you, please, play your harmonium.</div> <div> Such music goes perfect with jasmine perfume.</div> <div> Mantras linger in the air...</div> <div> Om...I'm remembering:</div> <div> 1968; NYU; You're on stage; How you sing!</div> <div> <I>Songs of Innocence and Experience</I>.</div> <div> I'm one among the audience.</div> <div> Your wild-man hairs are corkscrewing around,</div> <div> Exposing your loneliest fathers' traditions.</div> <bR> <div> My own long hair keeps pulling me forward....</div> <div> Look up. We're under the BART overpass.</div> <bR> <div> And now, let's sit down. There's no law against it.</div> <div> There's something I need to discuss.</div> <div> I take it for granted no subject's off-limits;</div> <div> No pride can come between us.</div> <bR> <div> Come on. Sit closer. Face to face.</div> <div> Let me look deep into your four eyes through mine.</div> <div> If we wore lenses ground by Spinoza,</div> <div> What are the odds? Would we be smarter?</div> <bR> <div> So you are a Buddhist; I'm only me.</div> <div> We are that we are. We both are.</div> <bR> <div> Sometimes I can find no way out.</div> <div> I feel trapped inside my own skin.</div> <div> I wander lost in my tiny apartment;</div> <div> Believe me, it's not labyrinthian.</div> <bR> <div> It's more like the closet</div> <div> Young Jesus said</div> <div> We should do our praying in.</div> <bR> <div> My one prayer. My only prayer.</div> <div> That all my failures are worth all their trying.</div> <bR> <div> But tonight is young and the Häagen-Dazs beckons!</div> <bR> <div> In and out of the 7-11...It's so easy...I float...</div> <div> Where are you? Oh, Allen! Why do you disappear?</div> <div> I must walk home now</div> <div> Soliloquizing</div> <div> Under this summer solstice moon.</div> <bR> <div> So what if it's true everything is connected!</div> <div> So what if it's true everything counts!</div> <div> Quick. Look. Lick my fingers.</div> <div> This pint of coffee ice cream</div> <div> melts.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Peggy Landsman is a poet whose work has been widely published in both print and online literary journals and anthologies.  This is her first chapbook.  She lives in Pompano Beach, Florida.</div> <bR> <div> You can contact her at <A HREF="mailto:pajarita@bellsouth.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:pajarita@bellsouth.net"><U>pajarita@bellsouth.net</U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> To-wit To-woo</div> <div> is a 28 page hand-sewn chapbook - $7.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Palatino Linotype" >   </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>                           <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="To-wit To-woo"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-06"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>                            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>