Lew Welch

 

 
[First You Must Love Your Body, In Games,]
 
 

 

First you must love your body, in games,
in wild places, in bodies of others

Then you must enter the world of men and
learn all worldly ways. You must sicken.

Then you must return to your mother and
notice how quiet the house is

Then return to the world that is
not Man

         that you may finally walk in the
world of Man, speaking.