{"product_id":"white-panties-dead-friends-bobby-byrd-9780938317722","title":"White Panties, Dead Friends: \u0026 Other Bits \u0026 Pieces of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eByrd writes poems like a novelist. Epic ones. His lines are full of fiction, bullshit and beauty.--E.Myles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three sections of poems: White Panties, The Hospice Poems: In Memory of Steve Sprague, and Other Bits \u0026amp; Pieces of Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Happened on My Front Porch \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Last night Allen Ginsberg waved goodbye\u003cbr\u003eforever. Several bees, a scorpion and a butterfly\u003cbr\u003ejoined him in his departure, although I didn't\u003cbr\u003esee them go off together. Their disappearance\u003cbr\u003ewas purely speculation. Before saying goodbye\u003cbr\u003eAllen murmured that he doesn't believe\u003cbr\u003ein a world of things. Why should he?\u003cbr\u003eThe end has never been the end, \u003cbr\u003eand the universe is an open field of play, \u003cbr\u003ea way of breathing. Here we don't know what\u003cbr\u003eis going to happen one day to the next.\u003cbr\u003eExcept we will suffer. Except we will change.\u003cbr\u003eAllen smiled and blessed me.\u003cbr\u003eHe doesn't want to be bothered anymore.\u003cbr\u003eHe was wearing his beard long again.\u003cbr\u003eHe seemed very much at peace.\u003cbr\u003eI was sober. The moon\u003cbr\u003enavigated in and out among the clouds.\u003cbr\u003eI listened to the trains on Montana Street whistling\u003cbr\u003eand I could hear my neighbors two houses down\u003cbr\u003edrinking beer and singing and chattering\u003cbr\u003eabout nothing. None of us will ever\u003cbr\u003eknow how wise we are. Inside\u003cbr\u003ethe house my wife was asleep, \u003cbr\u003eshe who for over 35 years has studied\u003cbr\u003ethe human geography of who I am.\u003cbr\u003eAllen had tied his boat to the juniper tree--\u003cbr\u003ea light boat, with short oars--he climbed\u003cbr\u003eaboard and sailed off into the nowhere, \u003cbr\u003ehappy to have saved us all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bobby Byrd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0938317725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780938317722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cinco Puntos Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.34d","brand":"Bobby Byrd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621820215551,"sku":"9780938317722","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-panties-dead-friends-bobby-byrd-9780938317722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}