Experiments with form

return for an ordinary number of kisses
he would have to listen
couldn't remember how to find the best spot
fumio until you see her behind
had taught him and his voice was that of a conductor
calling many idiots in this world
and having said it I have in 1980
discussing the logistics of a video
documentary I was making on
and the tables of the ancestors
around us look straight
will add nothing unless powered by
necessity a river bank the whole
thing is sordid embarrassing a fraud
the act funny about us
when we say we're in love
before accounts diners club and the new hotels
has dove tailed
the closest approx

The tread that I followed from Zola to Henry Miller to Kenneth Patchen led to John Cage, in particular his book silence- about a year before a friend and I had smoked some 'Black Leb' and while "under the influence" of the hash we hit upon the idea of constructing poems using crossword puzzle clues from the daily paper, not as elaborate as Cage's I ching chance operations method- never the less it was hours of fun. I have always favored content over form. Form can take of itself. The above text was written using five different books and a bag of scrabble tiles.