Philip Whalen: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?

If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? 

I need everything else

Anything else

           Desperately

But I have nothing

Shall have nothing

        but this

Immediate, inescapable

          and invaluable

No one can afford

          THIS

Being made here and now

         (Seattle, Washington

                     17 May, 1955)

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