Two Last Bits of Brautigan

Richard Brautigan's poem, "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4," (shown above as a broadside printed by The Communication Company in San Francisco — click for a larger image) seems like a fitting ending as we move on from his gentle breeziness to the very different (but no less enoyable) tone of Kurt Vonnegut. In particular, it's empty ending fits perfectly with both novels we've read (even if A Confederate General from Big Sur had multiple endings, it's still kind of no ending). The poem's reprinted more legibly below:

Karma Repair Kit:
Items 1-4

1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.

Second, here's one last wonderful bit of sixties conceptual ephemera, in the form of Brautigan's Please Plant This Book, a folio of eight seed packets with poems printed on them, which he published in 1968. You can navigate a virtual edition of this limited-edition oddity by following this link (sorry, no actual seeds included).