Three of you four gay
One married to Zionist royalty
Whitman was awesome
Wrote no-big-deal stuff too
Reznikoff was superb
Yet suffered anonymity
Ginsberg was world-influential
Scribbled drivel sometimes
You can (I know) write verse with verve
Prompt a tear, touch a nerve
(after reading Allen Ginsberg’s poem
“After Whitman & Reznikoff” in his Plutonian Ode)
