image: Day at the Circus by Michael Cutlip
HEY! THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
by Richard Brautigan
For Jeff Sheppard
No publication
No money
No star
No fuck
A friend came over to the house
a few days ago and read one of my poems.
He came back today and asked to read the
same poem over again. After he finished
reading it, he said, “It makes me want
to write poetry.”