A Quiet Conversation Piece (1968)
Story (1968)
Excerpt
A Quiet Conversation Piece
people who come by my place are a bit odd, but then almost everybody's a bit odd; the world is shaking and trembling more than ever and its effects are obvious. there's this one who is a bit fat, has now grown a tyke of a beard, and he looks fairly well. he wants to read one of my poems at a reading. I tell him o.k. and then I tell him HOW to read it and he gets a bit nervous...
Appears in Books
- Tales of Ordinary Madness - 1983, pg. 134
- Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness - 1972, pg. 374