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Poems: February 2, 2026

Poem No. 181 ("Wheatfield") At the Whitney, I saw a photograph Taken in 1982 by Agnes Denes Of a wheatfield, with the World Trade Center In the background I remember when that wheatfield was there When we heard about it, Alex Garvin and I Took some acid, and snuck under a fence And we lay in the wheatfield, looking up At the towers and the sky, occasionally Grabbing a bit of wheat and eating it I never had a bad acid trip But that acid trip in the wheatfield Was one of the best 2/2/2026 Poem No. 182 ("Sing Till Heaven") And once the seal is broken And the liquid starts to flowing There won’t be much more either of us can do Except tell the lie, deny what we know is true I'll do me, baby and baby, you do you And once the world has ended And the fences are all mended And the ones I had befriended are all gone I'll wonder how on earth it went so wrong I'll have almost nothing left besides this song No more Can't Help Myself or Tears of a Clown No more Flowers of Romance or Golden Brown But I'll sing till heaven takes me or sends me down 2/2/2026 Poem No. 183 ("The Reinvented Wheel") The reinvented wheel didn't quite know how to feel It was weird being more rounded and more circular Than any other wheel The reinvented wheel lived in a world that seemed unreal Instead of being attached to a car it sat on a shelf What was the deal? In its glass display case, the wheel Spun round in circles, metaphorically And remained motionless, literally Although the wheel was glad The wheel had been invented The wheel had mixed feelings About having been reinvented 2/2/2026 Poem No. 184 ("Valium Dreams") Horses and dogs Came in through the window Dancing and barking and braying Aluminum went into retrograde And the zodiacal princess Spoke backwards and sideways The commonplace laid down With the amnestic copulaters And the antiseptic helicopters The endoplasm went into spasms Closing the door on replication And any other contingencies The valium dreams ended When the dreamer decided That four nights of valium Was enough 2/2/2026 Poem No. 185 ("10,000, in a way") In October of 2020 I started numbering poems Beginning with No. 1 On January 1, 2021 I began again with No. 1 Some days I'd write two or three Other days 11 or more On January 1, 2022 I decided on a format Of at least five on weekdays And at least seven on weekdays Later in that year I decided the minimums Would also be maximums And that if I kept to those amounts By, 2026, I'd have written 10,000 poems In five years I also decided that the 1507 poems I wrote in the first 15 months Didn't count toward the 10,000 But if they did count Then this would be the 10,000th poem In one way I'm 1507 poems away From 10,000 poems In another way I'm already there 2/2/2026 My latest self-published book, Elevator Wall, contains all 173 poems that I posted last month (January, 2026), and none of the poems I didn't. It’s a mere $9.99 for the paperback and an even merer $.99 cents for the kindle. Kindle available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJ6G4M1Q Paperback available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJPPJXNS The complete Number Series (paperbacks of each month’s poems going back over three years, and kindle books beginning at the beginning, over four years ago): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3Z72NY6?...