Barry Alpert

BILL IRWIN DEMOS


By the way, too,
it will be returned,
life, & make my
living, as Xerxes made clear

I find preoccupying, captivating,
rigorously honest, & often very simple
writing of Beckett.  Elmo's World,  . . .
I want to return to doing
nothing.

Daunting task, to do so,
exist in my mind, at least, as
motif--sometimes I think I'm imposing
out of the blur.
Stroke which has left him more active than ever.