5 Books to Flip Through This 4/20

Today is April 20th, the unofficial holiday of cannabis enthusiasts. Celebrate the giggles and munchies while flipping through some of these poetry books while you toke.

 

1. Fantasy — Ben Fama

 

I think I would like to lie
among southern magnolias
in snowfall
dark skies above
into which
I will never enter
I'm watching Maya Deren
maybe I will smoke weed
I called out sick
it's the afternoon
(from "girlwithcat2.jpg")

 

2. How to Write — Gertrude Stein

 

There are the ones who do see me see me there are the ones who do see me see me there are the ones who do who do see me there are the ones who do see me.
A narrative of there are the ones who do who do see me.
Not to be to be to not to be to be to be to not to be to be to be to be to not to be to be to be to be be to be to this.
There are the ones who have let it day there are the ones who have let it who have let it let it day there are the ones who have to have let it let it let it daily let it daily do let it daily and be be so very installed installed in mounting mounting mountain and remounting, which is which.

 

3. Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings— Yoko Ono

 

4. Demon Miso / Fashion in Child — Joseph Mosconi

 

 

5. Top 40 — Brandon Brown

 

We stopped in Weed, California so I could pee by a crawdad tank in the bathroom; I thought and said to the crawdads I want to write a poem as baked in California as Weed is lost.

Some say happiness is "Oh my God / I feel it in the air / telephone wires above / sizzle like a snare."

In other words, happiness is like song, it descends from somewhere above, it permeates the breath, it is literally ecstatic until you incorporate it, then it becomes immortal.
(from "Lana Del Rey, Summertime Sadness")

 
Happy 4/20, friends!