for peter orlovsky in the sky

[billy]

read it for 'tone' -- it's not a story: a poem is never a story, it's a picture of the author's brain function. you've got the pieces in this, now just trip them all together for a little walk around my head.

i think you're missing my point.

i want the poem to tell me what to do, not the author.
and to some extent that's what happening.

and everything's a story, it all tells us something. but that's off topic.