inspired: gray             old men in soiled raincoats
  &        drunk, ***** young |
girls                      w/   ratty                                  |           |                             |
               pink & blue [hair];      |
Russian      girls [dressing  like       second-hand            (Barbie's & Chloe's)
           postmodern fembots in white ankle       go-go boots
            & Pucci miniskirts w/          
moth-eaten colored ||
    tights
            gather in dusty libraries reeking of
old books &  alcohol & later,   strong                      ******;   of going
  to college [                               ]  parties & losing tenure;
Artaud [Rimbaud, Burroughs, Villon],                 Bukowski &
                                Berryman:     insane [Whitman,  Ginsberg, Carroll -
                                                                ­ Plath, Smith, Millay, Teasdale] |
losers        |         like old bearded                         (Dorothy Parker)     
          uncles reciting gutter odes;
paraphrasing              classical epics -  
  [Gilgemesh,
the Death of Arthur,
                                           Large & Small Eddas]:
***** young girls [         ] write flirty love poetry        
                                     to old
men & teasing boys their                      age w/ insight: boys
knowing     nothing of insight,      |       all except     |                             ||
|                          that one poet