Whatever Happened to Peter Orlovsky

Writing Poems Is A Saintly thing

Writing poems is a saintly thing, the heart bursts like
feeding red chickens on a green hill, or sitting on a balloon coming down to a window sill in time for morning to welcome me
into your early rise of bacon & rolls & that tune on the radio for dancing around the kitchen tabol
with spoons in yr mouth.
One room is all I'll ever own in eternity, one bed--
Memory ramblings
Over tall mountains carrying me away to that nomads land where to breathe is but to sigh at a lost dream that rolls away from the eyes---
Rain & snow a clock on my window What good is my room it cannot hold
all the people in the world and chairs lonely because built for only one?
I tell you youth wants more of this world than our farthers left us, A mirror makes two & that's a blessing.
Grinding my teeth for lack of love, walking into a cathedral is like walking into a cold stove like into a glove.
I know the angel behind the door will bring me good paintings before long.
All angels meet on the curve of the earth & form a line that becomes a bridge to the sun.

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[Aynrand115]

I am trying my best to find that book, I've tried Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and pretty much anywhere else, does anyone know where to find Clean Asshole poems and Smiling Vegetable songs?

[Idlinfarm]

@Aynrand115 Try City Lights Books in San Francisco. They published it but it is probably out of print.

[comicwarrior69]

peter died may 30 2010

[Idlinfarm]

@comicwarrior69 Thank you. I did hear and sent him a letter and packet of photos and notes but it will get to Vermont too late. Alas! A great spirit.

[zazunzas]

i heard that peter is not so well now ... health issues

[Idlinfarm]

@zazunzas Thank you for your post. Alas, this is what happens to us as mortals.

[tlennox2991]

In May 2010 friends reported that Orlovsky, who had been battling lung cancer for several months, was moved from his home in St. Johnsbury, VT to the Vermont Respite House in Williston. He died there peacefully on May 30, 2010.

[aztiff]

Peter died this morning, May 30, in Vermont.