Another Day, Another Dolor

What thought Thoth
Egyptian god of medicine
Of spells & magic & knowledge?

What thinkest thou Thoth
Of Aleister Crowley
Of Yeats, Keats & the Beats

Of Gregory, Allen and William?
Jack whom living, alack,
I never saw wrote

doggerel like Gregory.
Gregory

Was a junkie drunk and thug
Like Crowley, Thoth; thugs
Like them lisp

As they think in numbers.
Their reputation underground
Until they securely join it, then

Allen famous howling and
Waiting
For

John on the toy piano
And Andy, all of them
Picturing the late twentieth century.