September 2018
1.
I’ve seen the worst minds of my generation
Ambling down university shaded leaf sidewalks
Exploring Michel Foucault
Wondering if NAMBLA is defensible:
If pleasure is all there is.
2.
So little depends
On a white feminist
Standing by the water cooler
Outside Women’s Studies
Puncturing patriarchy.
Kirby Olson (kirbyolson2@gmail.com) is an assistant professor at SUNY-Delhi who studied with Allen Ginsberg (and was angered to learn that Ginsberg had been a member of NAMBLA). Dr Olson’s book of poems Christmas at Rockefeller Center (WordTech) was published in 2015.
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