The guy that could fuck sailors And throw a punch,
And whose life was so bound up In his poetry that when he said to the Brooklyn Bridge
“A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,”
He meant himself. A circle on the surface of the ocean,
For a second, And then the bottom of the sea.
124 The Paris-American
James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and visual artist. His first full-length book of poetry, Directing Herbert White, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in April 2014.