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"FROM WHOM CAN WE LEARN..."
               (Pirke ha'Avot ___________)



       compiled & packaged by 
                Steve Amdur, P.O. 23529, Jerusalem


		More wise than Wile
		who merely picked
		the epigrams of others,
		I nest my words within their names...



.h2,Fromwhom (Rev. 4/2/89) ----
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My father said
"It is a great wrong
to have a good mind and not use it."
----
Marilyn Strauss said
"My mother says 
'If the LORD made anything better than sex
He kept it to Himself'

Vicky Woskoff said,
"No one understands late Beethoven,
except perhaps Marilyn."

Marilyn said of the Late Quartets,
"You can't write that way."
She hummed a septuplet run by Schnabel and said,
"If I could play like that just once,
I'd retire."
                (Marilyn Strauss Lidov )

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My brother said
"Boss people the way you'd like to be bossed."
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Leary said, "The LSD yoga is the longest hardest yoga of all."

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Tim Leary told me
"There is nothing to be afraid of."
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Said  my boss Cowboy Ed,
"Your friend in the Big White Hat":
"There's always something to do:
if you don't have a thing to do,
grab a broom and sweep the floor."

     Wolfboro, N.H., apr. 1956
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A sailor said to Charles Koshetz
"Chuckles,
I'm gonna re-enlist
and scarf up on all them
Benefits."
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The naked hippy chick's old man said,
"Some day,
Steve,
you must get stoned, come by, and groove on our snake --
he only does one thing at a time."
                       (Lower East Side NYC, ca. 1965)

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The Kansas rancher I quit cold
drove me to town, cashed my check, and put me on the road
   with a sack of apples and oranges
He said:
"We're all looking for something better.
I figure when a man needs a hand
he needs it right now."
              
(Santana, Kansas, apr. summer '65).
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My nephew explained to his fasther,
"Don't you understand --
when somebody wants something,
they want it right  now." 
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Nancy hypothesized
"Men and women are different species."
----
The dying mathematician said to the surgeon
"cut out whatever you have to cut out
and let me go back to doing math."
           (Prof. Norman Levinison -- z'lb).
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(From The New Buffalo, Arroyo Hondo N.M., 1967--1972)

(Pauline Gomez said 
"It is an honor to be asked to serve.")
                (quoted, "Be Here Now", Lama Foundation)
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Max Finstein said,
"Rick thought of a commune
as a place to hang out & smoke dope;
I talked him into starting a new world,
alas."

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Leary came to New Buffalo.
He sat down at our campfire 
ignored us all
and said of a friend,
"He's keeping his wife happy:
that's a good yoga."
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George Robinson said,
"Take care of what HE gave you."
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Jane said,
You can fall down
but you can't fall up."

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Susie Klein sang
"You've got nothing to lose"
----
Little Joe said, "Nature is my bible."

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Adrian said,
to suppose you're so bad
that HE don't want you
or ain't got no use for you
anymore
is colossal chutzpah 
---- 
Blond Larry said,
"The only rule is there are no rules
and to live here costs all you've got."
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Chicano Dave says,
"If you're going to be a bear,
be a grizzly bear."
    (New Buffalo, ca. 1969)
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A Zuni said,
"We are a peace-loving people
and so, if somone seeks to attack us
then, if at all possible
we run away."
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Justin Case:
"There has never been a fight at New Buffalo,
so don't be the first one
to get hit."
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In my mud room at New Buffalo
I built a big stone corner fireplace.
Blond Larry did all the work
but I told him what to put where.
He said
It's a lot harder to do this job
to your specifications.

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I told Susan, repeatedly, "Toke more dope."
She did.
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Toby the Chippewa Sergeant fron 'Nam
gone half mad when they wiped out his platoon
said:
"G-d don't want you to be crazy."
he also said
"The llth Commandment is
'THOU SHALT NOT 
                 be so Gol-Durned
                                               ugly."

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Funky Bob knocked up Brown-eyed Susan and sang,
"You ain't going Nowhere."
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Fat Larry said
"There is no problem too big
to run away from."
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Took Geronimo's great-great-grand-daughter
down to the Rio Grande Hot Springs
for the usual reason;
tough son of a Tacoma chief appears
on his way up the mountain
for a Meeting
and gets in the other corner.
All I remember he said was,
"Pass the soap, Ma'am."

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(From Israel)

Meyer said
"Yup,
sometimes in this country  it can take all day
to make 3 phone calls."
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Flipped out & crashed
half last summer unasked
on Menachem's patio;
and since I was irredeemably evil & unemployed,
jammed his vibes & ate his coffee-cake
but prudently enquired, at reasonable intervals,
"gonna call the loony-bin catcher?"
"Hat v'shalom".

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