. .	POEM'S CALIFORNIA CAREER For hours a telephone's unlocatable ringing kept the beach and the parasols flapping through the eyesight the ocean had been for so long struggling to become.   BEACHSCENE Champion Florida Sun; barnyard sea rollicking with yachts; and heron, motionless, at the water's edge to the right of a deserted pier two octaves below Stonehenge; but Poem was thinking of skirts unpursued, and whether he'd ever get laid again.   26 OCTOBER 1993 Poem, a beggar-woman two voices previously, then crow, shrieked like both at once over the ashes of his mother unable to wonder even the outline of any kind of re-attachment that seemed possible in a rational universe or that would not take all meaning out of earthly existence and anything that could follow it in an irrational one.   ON THE TOILET Between movements, it occurred to Poem with an almost-blinding certainty that his were the most superb lines of verse in the history of the cosmos. He chuckled as he thought of how long it would take the rest of the world to realize this.   Copyright © 2004 by Bob Grumman Sources: Bob Grumman: Of Poem DBQP Schenectady, NY Copyright © 1995, Bob Grumman Reprinted as an on-line chapbook by Stick Press. For the whole book, go to Stick Press’s site This is a cooperative presentation of The Institute for Broken and Reduced Languages And Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry	..