Found Poem at Harold Park Hotel
The reader (a visiting American novelist) did not

read he took from the pockets of his suit pieces

of paper and said I did not think it would be

so casual here well unlike Maupassant I no longer

describe things that has been done before

I only give the bones now in other words the dial

logue as I trust my readers imagination they can

fill the gaps themselves and if you ask me why I

write I can only say I don't want to fall asleep

infront of my typewriter (laughter) and if you ask me

whom I admire it is Gogol right here and now his

Dead Souls are still alive today (laughter) for most

other literature present or past I don't care much

in my country people no longer read or never have

read if anything they like to do it is to watch a

writer on television it seems here in Australia

everyone is as Warhol has said famous for five

minutes (applause) you are a very appreciative audien

ce the kind we never have had in the United States