Peter Orlovsky: His Company and Poetry

Peter Orlovsky: His Company and Poetry

Lover to Allen Ginsberg, wrote several books, one “Leapers Cry” (1972). Born 1933, seventy-five years old come July 3, 2008. Like his lover, he wrote some nasty stuff, like to like, or like two peas in a pot, what can you say. Allen went to Colombia University, and his lover was a high school drop out, by the looks of him, he never improved. They traveled the world together, and Allen, did just that, if he did anything worth notice; to China, Russia, East Europe, and Tangier, along with New York City, and Mexico. I suppose, Allen was thinking, pick up a dead duck, and you can lead him around blindly. Educate him, and he will not follow. They knew each other from 1954, to Allen’s death in 1997; Allen died four months before his old kinky friend William S. Burroughs kicked the bucket.
Peter’s “First Poem,” and “Second Poem,” is really no poems to think of, or at least I think of them that way, they have nothing to say, and what they do say, is worthless, you would think some of Ginsberg’s style would rub off on him, besides the rot gut stuff; thus, Peter calls himself a poet, nonetheless. The poem “The Bed is Colored Yellow,” is going nowhere, as is his “Snail Poem.” Peter is best know as Ginsberg’s lover, and after reading his poems, it is best he remain known that way, although his poems are not as nasty as Ginsberg, but I only read a few, or a set, I hate to go to the other three or four books he wrote, God cleanse my soul beforehand.