Jim Carroll (gone @ 60)

Poet & diarist Jim Carroll died past Friday of a heart attack. An obit in the New York Times gives the details of the life, & a lovely piece by Tom Clark on his website, here, cites Carroll on writing. Though I enjoyed the two volumes of “diaries,” I prefer the poems in Living at the Movies, & here’s one of them to counteract the sadness of one more calling it splitsville:

JET FIZZLE

It was summer then

and the forests were legal

the farmers there

use marble eggs as decoys

when those Hawks dive

they reach speeds of up to 200 m.p.h.

disappointed

at egg

a switchman

a red lantern

in Grand central Station

a jar of honey

in a plain brown bag

I thought

that it was pretty

Weird

when he poured it in

God the fathers beard

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