on books. frankly, Purdy’s last book was not as good, and maybe the one before that not as good…. I mean, if you’re going to get Purdy, try to get Poems for All the Annettes. 2$. the publisher is CONTACT PRESS, 28 Mayfield Ave., Toronto is the address listed and I think Toronto is in Ontario, Canada. the book may be sold out, tho. might be better to write Purdy [* * *]

my own stuff is out of print and I am out of copies, so hell. but have just corrected first proofs on something to be called At Terror Street and Agony Way, a bunch of poems somebody had handed to somebody and somebody had stuffed in their closet and then later somebody had put them on tape, and there I heard them in a place up in Silverlake hills, and I said I wrote those poems and the guy said hell yes, John gave them to me when he was running his magazine, and I said, so that’s what happened to them. meanwhile a guy bugging me to do a book, so I took the lost poems to him, threw in 4 or 5 new ones and he had, we had, the book. I’ve got about 500 poems out there missing. I mean people don’t return them. I never see them again. fuckers. real shits. so well. a book of new poems will be out early next year, no title yet, but this book At Terror Street and Agony Way will be out soon, like I say, at printer’s. publisher wants $4 for the mother, Black Sparrow Press, p.o. box 25603, Los Angeles, Calif. 90025.

I hope some of this helps you out. now the clock hands dig into my back. how’s that for corn? anyhow, time running out, game must go on, all that shit. so, here I go. [* * *]

[To Douglas Blazek]

October 30, 1967

[* * *] yeah I’m still writing columns most of the time for Open City and I’d clip and mail some of these to you but I am tired, TIME TIME TIME slugs me up the side of the head, saying old man, you got nerve. lay down.

give it up.

admit you’re dying

so if I get out the scissors and start clipping the things I’ll feel pretty damned silly, like I am being watched.