As/Is







1.31.2005


Ben Gazzara

His family said of him
he can simply smoke
a still response that exudes his might,
he had places, lines
where he was his father,
indulgence was in line
with Johnny Pope, in Cat,
the scions in which the dearer he got
the more diminished
was the voice, the sense
when ruined to speak softer,
water to add ease to the words