I was reading some Notley poems from Early Works that are based on dreams. It occured to me I could write up dreams as poems, but prefer to just accurately write them down without poeticizing them. Part of what I'm after is the banality and non-coherence of them, so the best ones might be the worst after a manner of speaking.
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In choir we are singing "O Taste and See," and thought of the Levertov poem (and book of that title), but the piece we are singing is based on the Bible verse Levertov took for her poem: "O taste and see! the subway bible poster said...." That is not a dream, just a (not very) interesting experience of finding two works of art based on the same text.
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