Tell me Martin –
		I remember the tutorial,

(on who? Hewett?)

		about Stalin’s midnight

		Mandelstam phonecall,
but as the grey sky marshaled troops

	for another assault on the swollen creeks

I did my best to forget

	public service selection criteria.
Settling down to nicotine and the Pepsi Prince,

& I find that line:

		there is room in the room I room in.

As startling as a parent revealing a disguised adoption.
Tell me Martin, did you tell us the line was from Berrigan?
		Logging on to Soulseek

		searching for Eric Dolphy tracks

		because I’m still not sure
why anyone would be glad to be unhappy.