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: WAITING TO GRADUATE : And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice...For to miss the joy is to miss all. : -Robert Louis Stevenson in Christopher Isherwood: Where Joy Resides, Don Bechardy and James White, eds., Methuen, London, 1989, p.v. : : All that energy; it’s been piling up : for one hundred and fifty years. : You’ve got to give it something to do, : some expression, some outlet, channel, : or it will simply burst. How to manage : this energy has been keeping us busy : for a long time: not-too-enthusiastic, : not-too-active, frenetically sitting alone. : Have you tried letterboxing or postering? : Why I think I must have put up fifty thousand, : put them in, thousands, up-and-down streets : in so many towns I’ve lost count. : I still do it occasionally for nostalgia, : to keep the oils flowing, but I do it like : an old veteran, with a casualness that : has none of the enthusiasm that used : to be in my step. I say, this is for : the energies of youth, this is to give : them something to do in the big cities, : part of the project: 3 hours and 2000 : on a hot day on the south side of town; : or postering all the delis from Smith Street : to East Fifty-First. : Look man! I’ve graduated after thirty-three years! : I’m into writing poetry on a hot day, : endless meetings and besides everyone : can’t do everything and I’m doing other things. : I can’t believe it that noone will put up the posters! : Here I am putting up posters and me 51 years old : and getting a little thin, a little too insouciant, : as routine as that fish and chip store; : that sticky-tape still goes down fast: : who wants to hang around a greasy-spoon : when it’s 100 degrees in the shade? : When, oh when will I really graduate? : Ron Price : 27 November 1995

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