Now If You Were Teaching Creative Writing, He Asked, What Would You Tell Them? (1975)

Poem (1975)

Excerpt

Now If You Were Teaching Creative Writing, He Asked, What Would You Tell Them?

I'd tell them to have an unhappy love
affair and hemorrhoids and bad teeth
and to drink cheap wine,
avoid opera and golf and chess...

Appears in Magazines

• Los Angeles Free Press - no. 558, March 28 1975, pg. A

Alternate Versions

• Now, If You Were Teaching Creative Writing