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After the Beats

After the Beats
"Howl" with laughter
you open your lettered eyes
from a Blakean universe
you even want to curse the hip
and rake over
those blues, reds and yellows
and not going after
the disordered dead
you merely wish for a fellow
hereafter to say Kaddish.