Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
(Only Jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate
Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)
What can I say?
It is better to have loved and lost
Than to put linoleum in your living rooms?
Am I a sage or something?
Mandrake's hypnotic gesture of the week?
(Remember, I do not have the healing powers of
Oral Roberts ...
I cannot, like F. J. Sheen, tell you how to get saved
& rich!
I cannot even order you to gaschamber satori like
Hitler or Goody Knight
& Love is an evil word.
Turn it backwards/see, what I mean?
An evol word. & besides
Who understands it?
I certainly wouldn't like to go out on that kind of
limb.
Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern &
his undersea folk.
At 11, Let's Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still
do, Thank God!
What was it he used to say (after the
transformation, when he was safe
& invisible & the unbelievers couldn't throw
stones?) "Heh, heh, heh,
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow knows."
O, yes he does
O, yes he does.
An evil word it is,
This Love.
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