Ted was a great American — you can tell because he died on Independence Day.
For a while I paid people to write my poems for me. Since the going rate was $1, I mostly didn't get very good work. Except for this brilliant poem by Anselm Berrigan. He wrote it but it's my poem & totally worth the buck. Today, the 38th anniversary of the death of his father, the poet Ted Berrigan, is the day to share this, since it's modeled after Ted's "Poets of the Future."
Girlfriends of the Future
Girlfriends of the future —
Remember!
You didn't marry Johnny Stanton —
I did.