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Author: ANDREWS, BRUCE
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Andrews, Bruce    Poet's Biography
147 poems available by this author


AKA       
First Line: Lola the elder
Last Line: Made of onionskin
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD       
Last Line: Sausage lacks refinement


AM I ALIVE       
Last Line: Lest you should ever acquire knowledge


AMERICA SHOPS       
First Line: America shops, atomic veterans,
Last Line: They're just terminals -- let's die


AND THE LOVE OF LAUGHTER       
First Line: What he lent himself studious of blind faith
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ANIMAL DICKS IN BED       
Last Line: Isn't that a goofy word, legislation?


ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENT       
First Line: Anti-enlightenment ship of fools
Last Line: Lithomatic tree-frog, the appendages are fixed in place


ARE YOU TIRED       
First Line: Are you tired of your dog ignoring you
Last Line: Of the sexes float above euclidean hammer blows


AS IF SCIENCE       
First Line: As if science consisted of so many beans in a bottle
Last Line: I do not dream of nebraska


AUTOCRACY MANAGED BY MIDGETS       
Last Line: I understand your concern, but I don't care


BLAB MIND BLAB BODY       
Last Line: Better bathroom privileges. Spores


BOIL ME, BROIL ME       
Last Line: Pressure with the passion; police want sleeker crimes


BOMB THEN, BOMB NOW       
First Line: Bomb then, bomb now -- doing the breathing arsenic job
Last Line: Her usual spinster tourist spitfire fantasy causes stress: the universe is perfect


BORDER STATE HAS TO GROW UP       
Last Line: I'm not hot-dogging you


BREED YOUR FOLLOWERS       
Last Line: Us out of everything we own


CAPITAL IS NOT A QUANTITY OF MONEY       
Last Line: Eden is a commodity


CASH MANAGERS PIE THEIR BRUTE       
Last Line: Alcohol stimulates me, todt


CEREBELLUM REPLACED WITH JOY STICK       
Last Line: Webbed feet because it has eaten its brother in the womb


CIVIL TONGUE       
Last Line: Swirl those nits, salivate with insincerity


COMMUNISM IS A MORALE PROBLEM       
Last Line: Relief from diarrhea


CONFIDENCE TRICK       
First Line: Intentionally leaderless - recite this alphabet; body never ends
Subject(s): Language Poetry


COUGH UP AT PREMIUM       
Last Line: Gutless jewels, gills are a gash


COULD DARWIN INSTRUCT THOSE TURTLES       
Last Line: When I'm not thinking I lose my gills


CULTURE JUST REUPHOLSTERS       
Last Line: And mao makes 5


DEFINITION       
First Line: A -- on how
Last Line: Awkwardness -- listens hard


DIVESTITURE-C, SEL.       
First Line: Mustard will outlive them
Last Line: This case of uplift %creature %display


DIVINE ASSURANCE EXPIRES JANUARY 1, 1984       
Last Line: Who deserves it


DON'T WRITE DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS       
Last Line: Never have acquired it in the first place


DOUBLE BAGGING       
Last Line: For me, compromise is nausea


EDUCATION HELPS ME SQUIRT       
Last Line: Clitoris with a night light


EVERYTHING YOU DON'T KNOW IS WRONG       
Last Line: Marxist-leninists are forgiven


FALSEHOOD       
First Line: Falsehood would be perfect for us
Last Line: Description reinforces the shit


FERTILITY IS ABSOLUTE ALTRUISM       
Last Line: Blame others for blaming ourself


FILM NOIR       
First Line: Iris in


FINITE UNTIL, SELS       
First Line: Hot contouring chameleon restuck
Last Line: Set-up flaps betray the snub peepshow endangerers


FROM THEIR SMALL PENIS       
Last Line: A critique of meaning


GESTALT ME OUT       
Last Line: Stalk my balk


GETTING READY TO HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED       
First Line: All I want


GIVE EM ENOUGH ROPE       
First Line: Accurate I mean that's what, side by side, you


GRACE HAMPERS SKIN       
Last Line: At the end of your arm-pits


HELP DEFEAT YOUR COUNTRY       
Last Line: Person's illusion of freedom


HOW TO ATTRACT LOVE       
First Line: How to attract love - the establishment of a code of conduct for


I AM YOUR PROBLEM       
Last Line: 80s is the decade of bodily abuse


I CAN'T WATCH THE FREEDOM       
Last Line: 2,000 years is enough


I GUESS WORK THE TIME UP       
First Line: Apart %meant


I LIKE TO WATCH THE PATTIES MELT       
Last Line: You are the groundhog but it's not groundhog day


I LTHINK       
Last Line: Lipstick line of fire which have acquired the most political visibility; spit, hit, that's it


I NEED ATTENTION BAD       
Last Line: Flags of convenience, so what else is new


I REGRET ZOOLOGY       
Last Line: A man without a penis is overprotective


I WANT EDUCATED OXEN       
Last Line: Try to misunderstand the opinions of others


I WHO PROUD DRUGS BE       
Last Line: Nothing bears any fruit right now


I'M TOO BUSY TO COMPROMISE       
Last Line: Well, that's big of you


IF A PEPPERMINT PATTY COULD SING       
Last Line: Milkshakes -- surrender


IF IT'S A BOMB       
Last Line: How little we know


IF PODS COULD TALK       
Last Line: I wish for crayons in your nose


IN THE PART MECHANMIZED HEART       
Last Line: Wish for a deadpan horse


INNOCENT BUT NOT AMBULATORY       
Last Line: Whenever are you not a word?


IS THERE A HYPHEN IN HARD-ON       
Last Line: I'll take a breast also


ISOLATE YOUR FUSE       
Last Line: Can buy rugs & hide


IT'S TIME TO STOP GLORIFYING THE WHITE ARMY       
Last Line: Don't you have any philosophy of life beyond self-indultence


JERK OFF IN THE BREADCRUMBS       
Last Line: I want treat saturation


JIMMIES ON MY DICK       
Last Line: Colonizing planets who broke his heart


JUST BECAUSE       
Last Line: I limited my rebellion to mere gestures in the guest book


JUST LET IT BURN ITSELF ON THE BULB       
Last Line: We spit on your grave


LEARN TO BE DISPENSABLE       
Last Line: Deduce the peg, ditching is imminent


LIFE IS A SCHOLARSHIP       
Last Line: Yeah. It's a helpy-selfy


LIP SERVICE: EARTH 1       
First Line: Dear... %moves %buffing beams
Last Line: In typewriter because you have a problem?--finite %fine


LIP SERVICE: EARTH 3       
First Line: Smartly pointed wrote
Last Line: Forget of course %thought sickens heart


LIP SERVICE: EARTH 6       
First Line: Dear refine the line sir: nobody wants you here, if you
Last Line: & that's why attention span went off


LIP SERVICE: MARS 10       
First Line: Editing is composition lab pleasure
Last Line: Dolls are the opposite of applause; %lap's in public interest


LIP SERVICE: MARS 5       
First Line: I clatter round, sit through
Last Line: Vactionhood, %soon sweet %dance round my neck


LIP SERVICE: MARS 8       
First Line: Certainty 'thinks' %hope with warning lesson, downturned
Last Line: Totally gratuitous extra-ordinary facts


LOVE SONG NO 38    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LOVE SONG NO 48    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS NAUSEOUS       
Last Line: So thank you, nikita


MARS 6 / FROM LIP SERVICE    Poem Text    
First Line: O awkward more vagrant thicker
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MATTER OF FACT       
First Line: Sanity be applicable something men
Subject(s): Language Poetry


METAPHOR AS ILLNESS       
Last Line: The ditch is my shepherd, I shall not want


MY OVARIES DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM       
Last Line: Perform to be unlike meaning


MY ROOTS, NO THANKS       
Last Line: What's the one name to remember when you go grocery shopping


NEON HELPS US STUPID       
Last Line: Too bad we can't pee out of our nipples


NO 11    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NO 116    Poem Text    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


O, MY ARMS CATCH ON THE NAILS       
Last Line: Shut up, america


O, THOSE HAPPY HAPPY DOGS       
Last Line: Come lick my stylus


OH, GLAZE ME BIG       
Last Line: Literature is worse than life


ONLY THE EGO CAN PICK UP A PENCIL       
Last Line: When columbus got to america, he said I'm not in the mood


OPPRESSION IS FEAR       
Last Line: Staying alive means writing a book


PAST IS NOT INTERESTED       
Last Line: Women do not wear beards & think they have something to listen to


PATERNALISM CAUSES CANCER       
Last Line: My mind shall fight for me


PENIS IS HEGEMONIC       
Last Line: Daily activity of slaves


PEOPLE ARE PROUD OF THOSE THEY OWN       
Last Line: Happy the people the lord has chosen to be someone else's


PEOPLE ARE SO POPULAR       
Last Line: Footnotes trashed my desk


PITY THE LOAN SHARK       
Last Line: Rooms that behave


PLEX       
First Line: Ethnomethodology


POLITICAL ECONOMY MEANS RED       
Last Line: C.I.A. Stole my brain


PRAXIS       
First Line: Pizzicati of glass


PRIMUM MOBILE 4, FR. LIP SERVICE       
First Line: Noon's night - phosphorous seed sensamilla singed fanfare
Last Line: Revolutionary delight off the scale


PUBLIC DOESN'T EXIST       
Last Line: Your teeth are showing


PUBLIC FIRST, SELF SECOND       
Last Line: Decided that I didn't exist


PURPLE PEOPLE-EATERS       
Last Line: So let me digress


REVOLUTION MEANS STABILITY       
Last Line: Non-swimming sperm; free lunch


SAVE HE PANDA OIL BELIEVES IN       
Last Line: Bombers in their own vaults


SCRAPE ME OFF       
Last Line: Urinating while driving


SELL YOUR FRIENDS: THINK RICH; STUPIDER       
Last Line: Me to be sympathetic or do you want my money


SEMEN DONOR       
Last Line: Heart stays in code


SLURPY WHITE DO       
Last Line: Oedipal is too consumptive of the body; bulllshittism


SNAKES IN HEAT       
Last Line: Get those antiques off my hump


SNOWPONY       
First Line: If if if. To tastest pinkish hypno hormone prowl. A copycat
Last Line: Gag me a transition, toss off the blink


SOCIETY STARTS WALKING AGAIN       
Last Line: History recedes; future congeals


SPECIES MEANS GUILT       
First Line: Species means guilt. Slave ship somatism grease their wings
Last Line: Are happy without our help


STALIN'S GENIUS       
First Line: Stalin's genius consisted of not french-kissing:
Last Line: Nationalism just means delegate somebody else's self-importance


STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL       
First Line: The a in arboretum - he fixed the star to his apron ...


SWAPS EGO       
First Line: Double you double you see triple three triple three triple


THANKS TO HIT YOU       
Last Line: No mass weapons. Fleshheads!


THIS UNITY SOUNDS POSTUREPEDIC TO ME       
Last Line: That we might live


THOSE NASTY OLD EMOTIONS TAKE OVER       
Last Line: Why should he like guys -- he's no lesbian


TIZZY BOOST, SEL.       
First Line: The higher calling
Last Line: Is convention's blanket tipped slightly under-- %sun bombs the wish


TOILING VIRGIN MIDGETS       
Last Line: Go marginalize yourself


TRUE FLIP TO       
First Line: Too since


TUCK IN YOUR CHAINS       
Last Line: Two from you. Wow, contagious


UNIT COSTS       
First Line: How to obtain foliation


VOWELS       
First Line: Avoid doing extra when you have


WE ARE MODERN       
Last Line: Here, all you do is breathe


WE ARE NOT A COUNTRY       
Last Line: Despise yourself for conforming


WE CONFINE OURSELVES TO OTHER PEOPLE'S BEDS       
Last Line: We have barely begun to speak


WE FINGER TO SPURN THE BEEF       
Last Line: White elephant bullet trains


WE OWN IT BUT THEY PLAY IT       
Last Line: The worst is yet to come


WHILE    Poem Text    
First Line: Were I idiom and
Last Line: Taut that the
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHILE       
First Line: Were I idiom and
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHO HAS THE PLIERS TO DOUBT IT       
Last Line: I'm heating my finger up


WHO IS GUILTY       
Last Line: Hypnosis bujilds a better you


WHO SHOUTED?: 4       
First Line: I dreamed of staring eyes
Last Line: Carry a heavy load %slandered


WHO SHOUTED?: 5       
First Line: Dream of chocolate
Last Line: Full moon %in childbirth


WHO SHOUTED?: 6       
First Line: I dreamed of hunting
Last Line: Candles %fat %money %ticks


WHO SHOUTED?: 7       
First Line: Obscenity %game runs away
Last Line: Gorgeous sunset %end of the world


WHO SHOUTED?: FIVE       
First Line: What happened will happen again
Last Line: Hedgehog of arrows in the blue chest


WHO SHOUTED?: FOUR       
First Line: Approve my %so you have come
Last Line: In the evening work about your dreams & the stars


WHO SHOUTED?: ONE       
First Line: My got %up out of who shouted?
Last Line: Black seeds in a white soil


WHO SHOUTED?: SEVEN       
First Line: And the fire at the ends of their hands
Last Line: You are looking at them


WHO SHOUTED?: SIX       
First Line: Corn center %fat stubby cigars
Last Line: Lucky days on the stingless verb bees


WHO SHOUTED?: THREE       
First Line: Who prefers the answers?
Last Line: Who owns what?


WHO SHOUTED?: TWO       
First Line: You're harvesting %formal parting: be careful what you see
Last Line: The as if--& the unless


YOU DO THEIR OWN THING       
Last Line: We appropriate the past by failing to vote for it


YOU MADE THIS WORLD, WE DIDN'T       
Last Line: Hammer the individual into solidarity


ZERO TOLERANCE IS TOO WET FOR ME    Poem Text    


ZERO TOLERANCE IS TOO WET FOR ME       
Last Line: I'll put incentives back into bleach
Subject(s): Language Poetry