Brautigan - At the California Institute of Technology

When Brautigan was poet-in-residence at the California Institute of Technology, he (understandably) wrote:

I don’t care how God-damn smart
these guys are: I’m bored.

It’s been raining like hell all day long
and there’s nothing to do.

The phrase “machines of loving grace” is used often these days, and derives from the title poem in the collection All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967). It amuses me greatly to note that he was writing stuff like this too, around the same time.