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Author: KAUFMAN, BOB Matches Found: 121 Kaufman, Bob Poet's Biography 121 poems available by this author A TERROR IS MORE CERTAIN Poem Text First Line: A terror is more certain than all the rare desirable popular songs I Last Line: Fuck on t.V. & all those cowboys watching Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Poetry & Poets ABOMUNIST MANIFESTO Poem Text First Line: Abomunists join nothing but their hands or legs Last Line: Abomunists reject everything except snowmen Subject(s): Social Commentary ABOMUNIST MANIFESTO First Line: Abomunists join nothing but their hands or legs, %or other same Last Line: Abomunists reject everything except snowmen AFRICAN DREAM Poem Text First Line: In black core of night, it explodes Last Line: Green screams enfold my night Subject(s): Africa; Dreams; Nightmares AFRICAN DREAM First Line: In black core of night, it explodes Last Line: Green screams enfold my night AFTERWARDS, THEY SHALL DANCE Poem Text First Line: In the city of st. Francis they have taken down the statue of st. Francis, Last Line: The-foot song, drinking cool beatitudes Subject(s): Poetry & Poets AFTERWARDS, THEY SHALL DANCE First Line: In the city of st. Francis they have taken down the statue Last Line: The foot song, drinking cool beatitudes ALIEN WINDS First Line: Alien winds sweeping the highway Last Line: Crying to paint me blue, in the california %afternoon ALL THOSE SHIPS THAT NEVER SAILED Last Line: And make every jew %her lover ANCIENT RAIN First Line: At the illusion world that has come into existence of world that exists Last Line: Great sun of the center BAGEL SHOP JAZZ Poem Text Recitation First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; United States; America BAGEL SHOP JAZZ First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; United States BATTLE REPORT Poem Text First Line: One thousand saxophones infiltrate the city Last Line: The city falls. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BELIEVE, BELIEVE Poem Text First Line: Believe in this. Young apple seeds Last Line: Rising above the mushroom time Subject(s): Social Commentary; Music & Musicians; Materialism; War BELIEVE, BELIEVE First Line: Believe in this. Young apple seeds Last Line: Rising above the mushroom time BENEDICTION First Line: Pale brown moses went down to egypt land Last Line: You must have been great %alive BIGGEST FISHERMAN First Line: Singular prints filed along damp banks Last Line: Baked by fissioning waves of newly glowing fish BIRD WITH PAINTED WINGS First Line: Monet whispered softly Last Line: Eat it all, %die! BLUE O'CLOCK First Line: Seven floating lead moons Last Line: Revealing our pains %to each BLUE SLANTED INTO BLUENESS First Line: No sebastian, not again, nor a first time either Last Line: Bleeding themselves or others BLUES NOTE Poem Text First Line: Ray charles is the black wind of kilimanjaro Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Charles, Ray (b. 1930) BLUES NOTE First Line: Ray charles is the black wind of kilimanjaro Last Line: Ray charles is a dangerous man ('way cross town), %and I love him Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Charles, Ray (b. 1930) BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE Last Line: I must find my motives CARL CHESSMAN INTERVIEWS THE P.T.A. First Line: Carl chessman is in sickly california writing death threats to the Last Line: I am glad now, sad now, home, in time for the murder, %guilty california is quiet CAT IS SLEEPING ON A POEM First Line: A lady cigarette fixed in the ash trays of history Last Line: And lived happily ever after CELESTIAL HOBO Poem Text First Line: For every remembered dream Last Line: There never was a night that ended / or began Subject(s): Dreams CINCOPHRENICPOET First Line: A cincophrenic poet called Last Line: To cross, spiral, and whirl COCOA MORNING First Line: Variations on a theme by morning Last Line: Stay here forever COME First Line: Come let us journey to %the sky Last Line: Come love, %love come COUNTESS ERICA BLAISE: CHORUS First Line: Erica blaise began life with several established truths in her Last Line: Who else can bring the silence so completely? Many. But one must %lead CROOTEY SONGO First Line: Derrat slegelations, flo goof baber Last Line: Engpop, engpop, bop, plolo, plolo, bop, bop CROSS WINDS (SONG FOR PAUL SWANSON) First Line: Cross wind, eat lost mad ones Last Line: At last, give death, %cross winds DRUNK TIME First Line: Free reeds drift in the weeping morning Last Line: Echoes of tears, %as the air ends DUST FOREVER HALFLIFE BEARINGS First Line: Transients to lake county hard time--stations Last Line: Red in washington--apomorphine electric EARLY LOVES First Line: Slippery driftwood, icebreaking mudpacks Last Line: God will be called to atone for his sins ENORMOUS GAS BILL AT THE DWARF FACTORY First Line: Carl chessman interviews san quentin p.T.A. Before leaving on Last Line: Song cycle........Desperate retellings of the thin-lipped nebraska %pogroms FALLING First Line: Cool shadows blanked dead cities, falling Last Line: Cutting off the edge of time, falling, endlessly FORGET TO NOT Poem Text First Line: Remember, poet, while gallivanting across the sky Last Line: Of every nothing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FORGET TO NOT First Line: Remember, poet, while gallivanting across the sky Last Line: Remember, of every nothing GENEOLOGY Poem Text First Line: Great-grandfathers, blessed by great-grandmothers Subject(s): Violence GENEOLOGY First Line: Great-grandfathers, blessed by great-grandmothers Last Line: Here, adam, take back your god damn rib Subject(s): Violence GRANDFATHER WAS QUEER, TOO First Line: He was first seen in a lousiana bayou Last Line: Live happily ever after HARWOOD ALLEY SONG (SAN FRANCISCO) First Line: Oh the god-bus has a busted wheel Last Line: In folds of wind, caught hanging in time HEATHER BELL First Line: You know heather bell, she lives around the corner from every Last Line: To kill. Heather is cool & needs a cool cape HEAVY WATER BLUES Poem Text First Line: The radio is teaching my goldfish jujitsu Last Line: But me and my son laughed in our furnished room Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HEAVY WATER BLUES First Line: The radio is teaching my goldfish jujutsu Last Line: Laughed in our furnished room HIS HORN First Line: Swinging horn softly confirming Last Line: Across our parched heartstrings I AM A CAMERA First Line: The poet nailed on Last Line: Creation is perfect I HAVE FOLDED MY SORROWS Poem Text First Line: I have folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer night Last Line: The revisited soul is wrapped in the aura of familiarity Subject(s): Grief I HAVE FOLDED MY SORROWS First Line: I have folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer night Last Line: The revisited soul is wrapped in the aura of familiarity I SIGH A MARBLED SIGH AH, AT LAST First Line: We fly ahead into the past, good, we defeat progress Last Line: Me colours & structures & artkey textures we all %wind I WISH First Line: I wish that whoever it is inside of me INSIDE CONNIE First Line: Inner lit, twisted trees Last Line: Around her head J'ACCUSE First Line: The city is a jealous bitch Last Line: The beautiful city is a jealous bitch JAIL POEMS First Line: I am sitting in a cell with a view of evil parallels Last Line: Was once a man who shouted across tables JANUARY 30, 1976: MESSAGE TO MYSELF First Line: It is the time of illusion and reality Last Line: The music of the ancient rain is heard everywhere JAZZ CHICK Poem Text First Line: Music from her breast, vibrating Last Line: Her music... / jazz Subject(s): Women; Jazz JAZZ CHICK First Line: Music from her breast vibrating Last Line: Jazz %her music... %jazz LATE LAMENTED WIND, BURNED IN INDIGNATION First Line: Tonto is dead, tonto is dead, tonto is dead Last Line: Hide in the subway, quick %before it melts LORCA Poem Text First Line: Split ears of morning earth green now Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LORCA First Line: Split ears of morning earth green now Last Line: In lost spain's %darkened noon Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) LOST WINDOW First Line: Tall strips of carrion moonlight Last Line: In the dark corner %of evening MICHAELANGELO THE ELDER First Line: I live alone, like pith in a tree Last Line: I would die for poetry MIND FOR ALL ITS REASONING First Line: The mind for all its complicated reasoning Last Line: My eyes opened on closed windows, a curved man MINGUS Poem Text First Line: String-chewing bass players Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979) MINGUS First Line: String-chewing bass players Last Line: Crash from foggy yesterday %to the light %of imaginary night Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979) MONGOLIAN SUNSET IN GOBI DESERT First Line: The road %it takes you %and it slows you down Last Line: Arkansas farm watchin' %the big trees grown MORNING JOY First Line: Piano buttons, stitched on morning lights Last Line: Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, %and jazz MY MYSTERIES CREATED FOR ME Last Line: My green-eyed one, before this earth stops %spinning NEW RIVIERA HOTEL First Line: Sensate organism in blue time of half life Last Line: Word 'apomorphine' NIGHT SUNG SAILOR'S PRAYER First Line: Voyager now, on a ship of night Last Line: The unholiest, most holy all NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES Last Line: The white south shall gather at %preservation hall NO MORE JAZZ AT ALCATRAZ First Line: No more jazz Last Line: No more jazz %at alcatraz NOTES FROM THE HOT GARBADINE SCENE First Line: Well baby I seem to be sick do you think you are too my lungs are filled with Last Line: Flame lit into the one of the core of the second april hidden in this skeleton of time O-JAZZ-O Poem Text First Line: Where the string Last Line: Is love, / is life Subject(s): Jazz O-JAZZ-O First Line: Where the string %at %some point Last Line: My mother's sound, %is love, %is life OCT. 5, 1963 First Line: Arriving back home in san francisco to be greeted by a blacklist Last Line: Every beat, you hear it in between, its sound is ON Poem Text First Line: On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear Last Line: On lonely poet corners of low lying leaves & moist prophet eyes Subject(s): Popular Culture United States; Social Commentary ON First Line: On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear Last Line: On lonely poet corners of low lying leaves & moist prophet eyes PATRIOTIC ODE ON THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY... First Line: Come on out of there with your hands up, chaplin Last Line: Come on, chaplin, we mean business PEACE BE WITH YOU First Line: The guns of war are silenced Last Line: This is the place %and, the time PICASSO'S BALCONY Poem Text First Line: Pale morning light, dying in shadows, loving the earth in Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) PICASSO'S BALCONY First Line: Pale morning light, dying in shadows, loving the earth in Last Line: The pearl neck of morning, beneath the laughter, of sad sea birds Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) PLEA First Line: Voyager, wanderer of the heart Last Line: Send them back, send them back POET First Line: From a pit of bones Last Line: A fish with frog's %eyes, %creation is perfect PRIVATE SADNESS First Line: Sitting here alone, in peace Last Line: To eternal peace %the end of all REFLECTIONS ON A SMALL PARADE First Line: When I see the little buddhist scouts Last Line: I shake my head....It falls off RESPONSE Poem Text First Line: Sleep, little one, sleep for me Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood RESPONSE First Line: Sleep, little one, sleep for me Last Line: As stars appear %in the dark %skies Subject(s): Children; Mothers RESULTS OF A LIE DETECTOR TEST First Line: From the sleeping calendar I have stolen a month Last Line: Or a minute or a second, unless I become desperate again ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Jazz radio on a midnight kick Last Line: Round about midnight Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Bedtime ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT First Line: Jazz radio on a midnight kick Last Line: Round about midnight SARASWATI First Line: May saraswati give thee %intelligence Last Line: So live a hundred autumns SHEILA First Line: Sheila %cast %out of rainclouds Last Line: Mount the trophy, the winners are waiting %in living %rooms SLIGHT ALTERATIONS First Line: I climb a red thread Last Line: Watching me eat the calendar SUICIDE First Line: Big fanny & stromin vinne deal Last Line: & with a little piece of string, & a sharp stone %invented suicide SUN First Line: Sun, creator of suns Last Line: Are not ordained in vain TELEGRAM TO ALEX/BAGEL SHOP, NORTH BEACH SF First Line: Dear alex, tomorrow I am going to eat all of the suez Last Line: Pa kettle and bearnog baroock and carnal spellman %can't come, so there TEQUILA JAZZ First Line: The party is on. %people are on Last Line: Hanging, man, %hanging TERROR IS MORE CERTAIN First Line: A terror is more certain than all the rare desirable popular songs I Last Line: F... On t.V. & all those cowboys watching THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES Poem Text Last Line: The white south shall gather / at preservation hall Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE POET Poem Text Recitation First Line: From a pit of bones Last Line: Creation is perfect Subject(s): Creation TIDAL FRICTION First Line: Tidal friction...Comments at real movie........Something Last Line: Intellectuals hang around together, & %swap commentaries TO MY SON PARKER, ASLEEP IN THE NEXT ROOM First Line: On ochre walls in ice-formed caves shaggy neanderthals Last Line: Nor can any ever be, at any time in time to come TRIP, DHARMA TRIP, SANGHA TRIP First Line: Is a deliberate attempt Last Line: Replacing words with images UNANIMITY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED, NOT A DOT LESS FOR ITS ACCIDENT First Line: Riga of the drum, the drum the drum the drum the drum Last Line: A man bereft of string falls all walls, becomes a screamed baby, raved UNDER WEIGHT CHAMPION First Line: What goes up is bound to come down Last Line: Head, one beard explodes succession burned comedies %inside a head UNHISTORICAL EVENTS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism UNHISTORICAL EVENTS First Line: Appollinaire %never knew about rock gut charlie Last Line: And show him the little unpainted arrows Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Life, Modern; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism UNHOLY MISSIONS Poem Text First Line: I want to be buried in an anonymous crater inside the moon Last Line: I want to prove once and for all that I am not crazy Subject(s): Wishes UNTITLED First Line: The sun is a negro Last Line: Heaven is negro WAITING First Line: Somewhere there waits, waiting Last Line: Wind, sea, %sky, stars, %surround %us WALKING HOT SEASONS First Line: From walking hot seasons, through unmarked years of light Last Line: They say my life is exciting, but I don't believe them WALKING PARKER HOME Poem Text First Line: Sweet beats of jazz impaled on slivers of wind Last Line: In raging fires of love. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) WAR MEMOIR: JAZZ, DON'T LISTEN TO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK Poem Text First Line: In the beginning, in the wet Last Line: And feel, & die. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians WEST COAST SOUNDS ?اض 1956 Poem Text First Line: San fran, hipster land Last Line: For mexico. / me too Subject(s): Jazz; Poetry And Poetry; California WHEN WE HEAR THE EYE OPEN First Line: When we hear the eye open, ther, in that place Last Line: On the eternal launching pad WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND? First Line: A spanish sculptor named cherino Last Line: It can put you in the hospital WHY WRITE ABOUT First Line: Write hung things, mad mess Last Line: Like man, like %man, like, %like WOULD YOU WEAR MY EYES? First Line: My body is a torn mattress Last Line: Would you wear my eyes? [BUT AS LOVE] First Line: But as love %is %long-winded Last Line: In sound & %light |
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