Whenever I have a day off :)

The B-side on Color Record No. 17:

and this poem that I saw for the first time today:

Circle Poems

By Lew Welch

Whenever I have a day off, I write a new poem.

Does this mean you shouldn’t work, or that you

write best on your day off?

For example, this is the poem I wrote today.

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When he was 20, he understood some of the secrets of

life, and undertook to write them down so simply that

even an idiot could understand.

“For,” he reasoned, “if I can’t do that, I don’t

understand it myself.”

He proved himself right.

When he was 50, he didn’t understand it himself.

                                      *

“Why is it,” he said, “that no matter what you say,

a woman always takes it personally?”

“I never do,” she said.

                                      *

John said, “Then I met that short fat guy with the

neat little beard, with a name like dawn.”

“You mean George Abend?”

“Yeah.”

“Abend means evening.”

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