Richard Brautigan,
oddball, drinker, poet, thought a poem should be written for everyone. Not everyone in the crowded, general, all-encompassing
sense. He thought each person should
have a poem written about them.
I think he actually tried
to do that for a couple days—tried to write a personalized poem for every
person. A few of those poems landed in
his collection of poems titled Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork.
I guess the lofty idea of
personalized poems petered out at about a dozen poems.
Brautigan refused to
drive a car, partied at every opportunity, and, frankly, poets are not great at
getting shit done.
At this point, you may
need to write your own poem if you want one.
--Mitchell Hegman
Note: Richard Brautigan is the closest equivalent to Scotch I can think
of. If you don’t like his writing
immediately, you never will.
I'd rather write a poem about others than one about me
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