Lew Welch went into the hills

[mnaz]

Lew Welch went into the hills
with a gun shaped like some kinda
sword like they recycle through all
those Ho-wood epics, and he never
returned, never found a ring of bone
except in a poem, and I don't care if
he was north or south of Antarctica,
his body was never found and we had
to listen to Huey Lewis for awhile.
God that was thin, thin times.

[creativesoul]

Huey Lewis - that’s fucking hysterical!
Thin times
Yeah epic Hollywood tales

[saw]

and the Beat
goes on

the News
was Huey's guys

and Gwyneth Paltrow
rues the day

she ever said
okay

[mnaz]

Hard for me to believe that he was stepfather to Huey ... Yeah, the News. The News for fuxxake.. Is that what became of the Beat poets? This is a weird "poem." I kinda like it.

[WIREMAN]

Gary and the crew searched and searched .....no Lew to be found....probably drug off by a bear or mountain lion I guess....

[mtmynd]

interesting poem.

[the mingo]

Lew - went off knockin on heaven's door and the whole house fell on him - he went looking in the cupboard but there was nothing left in the vagina for him - thing that sticks in my mind is they never found the body -ok- but the gun ? Nothing a bear or mountain lion would have been interested in -

[still.trucking]

Lew Welch just turned up one day,
live as you and me. "Damn, Lew" I said,
"you didn't shoot yourself after all."
"Yes I did" he said,
and even then I felt the tingling down my back.
"Yes you did, too" I said—"I can feel it now."
"Yeah" he said,
"There's a basic fear between your world and
mine. I don't know why.
What I came to say was,
teach the children about the cycles.
The life cycles. All other cycles.
That's what it's all about, and it's all forgot."

For/From Lew - Poem by Gary Snyder

[WIREMAN]

Thanks ST.....

[mnaz]

That's way better than mine.. I shoulda gone to see Snyder at that book signing when I had a chance..

[WIREMAN]

Saw Gary Snyder 4 times, at a bookstore where he told the audience "I do not shout my poetry!"