Jack Veasy, poet, reading at the Gay Coffehouse of Philadelphia, Gay Community Center of Philadelphia, July 13, 1978. Includes original poems by Veasy: Self Portrait -- Never Judge a Poet by a Book -- On Feeling Surrounded -- People Whose Names End in Y -- An Impersonal Love Poem -- For One Who Came Just Once -- Imaginary Crabs -- Conversation with an Almost Murderer -- The Patriarch's Predicament -- To An Incurable Insomniac -- Aloft -- The Back of Your Neck -- A Rude Awakening.