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Not Hip Enough To Read That Crap

Doug Draime

he writes poems in a bebop rhythm
you could tap your foot
or pound out a beat on a coffee table to them

his poems let you know in no uncertain terms
that he knew Ginsberg, Corso, and Kerouac
pimped for Hunter S. when Hunter S. flew
into NYC to appear on David Lettermen

and Kerouac slept with his great aunt
under the shadow of a red harvest moon
between two 400 foot redwoods
in 1951 in a sleeping bag
that smelled of hibernating possums

it was Bill Burroughs who rocked him
to sleep
reading Uncle Remus
as a storm ripped through a small Pennsylvania farm town
where his mother lives now hiding
under the witness protection program

the poems he writes in bebop rhythm
the kind you could tap your foot
or pound out a beat on the coffee table to them,
are full of so many names of hipsters, movie stars,
poets and gangster innuendo, that it all made me jittery
and I realized I just wasn’t hip enough
to read that crap

and I put the book back in the envelope it came in
and stuck it under a stack of jazz CD’s
it was the hippest thing I could think of

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