There’s this lovely poem by Kenneth Patchen that I sent out a while back on my lil poem-of-the-day mailing list (aka “The Richard Brautigan poem of the day”).
I sent it out and, you know, sometimes someone writes back, and this time a good pal wrote me to say “you should make that a song,” which I thought was a great idea.
Herewith, the first new “Virtual LP” track in a while. Lyric (c) Kenneth Patchen, who it turns out recorded this poem, somewhere along the line, in case you wanted to hear the rhythm he heard in his head.
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Time: 1:27 seconds; Specs: 2.9M
Wow, there is a whole album of Patchen reading his love poems.
Frankly his voice doesn’t do it for me. Your version is better.