{"product_id":"9780938317722","title":"White Panties, Dead Friends \u0026 Other Bits \u0026 Pieces of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e What Happened on My Front Porch \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast night Allen Ginsberg waved goodbye\u003cbr\u003eforever. Several bees, a scorpion and a butterfly\u003cbr\u003ejoined him in his departure, although I didn’t\u003cbr\u003esee them go off together. Their disappearance\u003cbr\u003ewas purely speculation. Before saying goodbye\u003cbr\u003eAllen murmured that he doesn’t believe in a world of things. Why should he?\u003cbr\u003eThe end has never been the end,\u003cbr\u003eand the universe is an open field of play,\u003cbr\u003ea way of breathing. Here we don’t know what\u003cbr\u003eis going to happen one day to the next.\u003cbr\u003eExcept we will suffer. Except we will change.\u003cbr\u003eAllen smiled and blessed me.\u003cbr\u003eHe doesn’t want to be bothered anymore.\u003cbr\u003eHe was wearing his beard long again.\u003cbr\u003eHe seemed very much at peace.\u003cbr\u003eI was sober. The moon navigated in and out among the clouds.\u003cbr\u003eI listened to the trains on Montana Street whistling\u003cbr\u003eand I could hear my neighbors two houses down drinking beer and singing and chattering about nothing. None of us will ever know how wise we are. Inside the house my wife was asleep,\u003cbr\u003eshe who for over 35 years has studied\u003cbr\u003ethe human geography of who I am.\u003cbr\u003eAllen had tied his boat to the juniper tree—\u003cbr\u003ea light boat, with short oars—he climbed\u003cbr\u003eaboard and sailed off into the nowhere,\u003cbr\u003ehappy to have saved us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, essayist and publisher \u003cb\u003eBobby Byrd\u003c\/b\u003e, with his wife Lee, recently received the Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinco Puntos Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018857234672,"sku":"9780938317722","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780938317722_p0.jpg?v=1763869292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780938317722","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}