philip whalen is dead and feeling just fine really i'm fine don't fuss

I asked Philip Whalen through the cut-up machine, "Should I be afraid of this new year?

Here's what he replied.


     Philip's Fourth Response


bill, i feel a distance because I've encountered it faultlessly,


a very pure one.


as in the lip-synching New York School poets.


The citified translation of a satyr is wearing an offputting suit.



There are many fine doomed ones stating their case


literature? oh, it's just HOME DEPOT with a thesaurus


children penguined back and forth
sarcastically like literary critics


you should be arrested for soliciting


i wanna feed you to its capacity (is that sexy?


One wonders how places arrive in a lasting quietude.


Homo say polis.


oh that's not impt.