Un Escritor, Un Escritor
Richard Rodriguez in Mexico City
Me in Sacramento
Where the girls are so pretty

Steinbeck is right - we are lonesome animals
Writing to be less lonely
Don't even own a tv no more
I write telephonely

I was born in a time of war
Vietnam raging and raging
Summer of 69
Bob Seger Turn the Paging

War is the Father of All Things
Nature a Heraclitean Fire
I grant I never saw a goddess go
She is my burning desire

           My love a funeral pyre