Philip Whalen - If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?

I need everything else 

Anything else 

    Desperately 

But I have nothing 

Shall have nothing 

    but this 

Immediate, inescapable 

    and invaluable 

No one can afford 

    THIS 

Being made here and now 

 

       (Seattle, Washington 

                      17 May, 1955) 

 

                      MARIGOLDS 

 

Concise (wooden) 

       Orange. 

Behind them, the garage door 

       Pink 

(Paint sold under a fatuous name: 

"Old Rose" 

       which brings a war to mind) 

 

And the mind slides ov...