Maybe a little-- or what I call a drinking song.
It isn't as I pointed out the kind of drinking song
that Mario Lanza used to sing in huge German beer
halls but my own private little kind of drinking song.
I watched that movie again, that Student Prince on television
and it's just, it was really wild.
That whole tradition of scholarship
is slowly floating out of American English departments,
which is sort of nice too, now that I've sort of given up
on them or they've given up on me.
"Drinking Song."
I want to die in the saddle as it
were an enemy of civilization.
I want to walk around in the woods and fish and drink.
I'm going to be a child about it and I can't help it,
I was born this way and it makes me
very happy to fish and drink.
I left when it was still dark and walked down
the path of the river, the yellow dog, where I spent
the day fishing and drinking.
After she left me and I quit my job, and wept for years
and all my poems were born dead, I
decided I would only fish and drink.
Water will never leave Earth and whiskey is good for the brain.
What else am I supposed to do in these last days but fish
and drink.
In the river was a trout and I was on the bank,
my heart, my chest, clouds above, and she was in New York
forever and I fishing and drinking.