Hamburger Cemetery (Revised ending)

So the wind won’t blow it all away

–Richard Brautigan

Richard,

do you know

that Please Plant This Book

Goes for $1500 on

Amazon…

You

gave it away for free.

Critics said someday everyone

would be writing Brautigans

that Brautigan is good for you.

You should have bought

a hamburger from Baudelaire

at Big Sur

that day

versus

the .44 shells and bottle

of Jack Black left

in dead

darkness.

You should be trout fishing

in America

casting broken

marriages

in Rembrandt Creek

still tying wet flies

& dry flies

together with metaphors

similes.

We should be taught the pull

of a trophy fish

rod tip bending

line stretched tight

just before

it’s gone.