Tangier 1961, left to right: Peter Orlovsky, W.S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso, Ian Sommerville, and Paul Bowles (seated on ground)

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence
Not on the sea or on the islands, not
On the mainland, in the desert or the rain land,
For those who walk in darkness
Both in the day time and in the night time
The right time and the right place are not here
No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and
     deny the voice

He had dined with Gertrude Stein
Composed with Copeland
Merce danced Bernstein directed his zarzuela
Hearing light seeing dark comfortable with quiet
A dream took him to Tangier
Tennessee Williams traveled with him
Trading aural contexts for intimate interiors
Bill Burroughs came to lunch and others as well
"Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection"
Which he coolly dissected with a sharp surrealist scalpel.