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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

NEWLY DISCOVERED POEM BY 1960'S GREENWICH GUERRILLA POET VERIFIED

Discovered in 2010 written on an old gum wrapper being used as a bookmark in a beat up copy of J.D. Salinger's "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction".  This particular volume, as in all the books owned by the poet , Morrow, had the initials LHM written in the bottom corner of page 67.  This marking and the verification of the handwriting on the gum wrapper by experts at the Lesley Heath Morrow Society in Nova Scotia lend credence to this find.



GUM WRAPPER BLUES

sweet street corner sax man
soul seduced
sets melancholy mood
sunglasses and cigarettes
staples of the situation
this is how I remember America
no flags
no armies
no anthems
only late night saxophone
sentimental tobacco
and $1.42 in change
collected in a battered pork pie hat

Lesley Heath Morrow

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