Nature empty, everything's pure; Naturally pure, that's what I am." I'm a jew? a nice Jewish boy? A flaky Buddhist, certainly Gay in fact pederast? I'm exaggerating? Not only queer an amateur S&M fan, someone should spank me for saying that Columbia Alumnus class of '48, Beat icon, students say. White, if jews are "white race" American by birth, passport, and residence Slavic heritage, mama from Vitebsk, father's forebears Grading in Kamenetz-Podolska near Lvov. I'm an intellectual! Anti-intellectual, anti-academic Distinguished Professor of English Brooklyn College, Manhattanite, Another middle class liberal, but lower class second generation immigrant, Upperclass, I own a condo loft, go to art gallery Buddhist Vernissage dinner parties with Niarchos, Rockefellers, and Luces Oh what a sissy, Professor Four-eyes, can't catch a baseball or drive a car-courageous Shambhala Graduate Warrior addressed as "Maestro" Milano, Venezia, Napoli Still student, chela, disciple, my guru Gelek Rinpoche, Senior Citizen, got Septuagenarian discount at Alfalfa's Healthfoods New York subway- Mr. Sentient Being!-Absolutely empty neti neti identity, Maya Nobo- daddy, relative phantom nonentity | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETHE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE SONG: TO CELIA by PHILOSTRATUS MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AMORETTI: 19 by EDMUND SPENSER AN INVOCATION by ISIDORE G. ASCHER TO DR. PRIESTLEY. DEC. 29, 1792 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO THE REV. MR. C --. by MARY BARBER |