Words to Joe Ceravolo

Ron Padgett

I think tonight I am beginning to understand some impulses
That a friend of mine Joe Ceravolo seems to have been having
And which others have certainly had
Which makes no difference
But which might make him seem terribly silly for a while
And which if I’m right I’m beginning to feel myself
About now and therefore sympathize with
It’s a cheap sympathy when you have to come about it like this
But who cares

Listen, Joe Ceravolo
You’re OK


Previously published in Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969).

March 1, 2013
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