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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PADGETT, RON Matches Found: 214 Padgett, Ron Poet's Biography 214 poems available by this author 102 TODAY Poem Text First Line: If wystan auden were alive today Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Birthdays 16 NOVEMBER 1964 Poem Text First Line: As this morning seemed special when I woke up Last Line: Where is it? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers 17-AUG-71 First Line: Shadows are not black or gray A CARELESS APE Poem Text First Line: The real reason I'm not you Last Line: Drawn aside like music to show the notes glittering quietly below Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans A MAN SAW A BALL OF GOLD Poem Text First Line: A man saw a ball of gold in the sky Last Line: Ay, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold. Subject(s): Gold ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS Poem Text First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Last Line: That unexpected something, or even if you don't Subject(s): Education; Schools AFTER LORCA First Line: Pink paper with blue lines Last Line: Pink sky with blue lines %very pretty AFTER REVERDY Poem Text First Line: I would never have wanted to see your sad face again Last Line: That kind of love is terrible Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) AFTER THE BROKEN ARM Poem Text First Line: From point a a wind is blowing to point b Last Line: Dispatch this note to our hero at once. Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines AIR / LIGHT / ENERGY & LOVE Last Line: Am here to %tell you so ALBUM Poem Text First Line: The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The ALBUM First Line: The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my Last Line: Who have loved them. They treat us like dirt ALONE AND NOT ALONE Recitation by Author ALPHONSE GOES TO THE PHARMACY First Line: For the third time, alphonse, no, I will not go to the pharmacy Last Line: One last look at his mistress, then wended his way out the door AMERICAN COWSLIP First Line: Nothing is %the way you think it is Last Line: As it moved out %from under you %in the slow %rotation of the sphere %you call a star, %a flower, a ANIMALS AND ART Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I was saying that sometimes I feel sorry for wild animals, out there in the dark, looking Subject(s): Animals APE MAN First Line: Why is that I write so often about writing? I 'm not a theoretician of language Last Line: Down and suck my own words up off the page AROUND PARIS First Line: Everything in paris is round Last Line: As lots of circles. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France AT APOLLINAIRE'S TOMB Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The death of guillaume apollinaire still calls forth feelings of sorrow Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S TOMB First Line: The death of guillaume apollinaire still calls forth feelings of sorrow Last Line: I looked around. He was gone. Everything looked the same. %well, %sort of Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism AUTUMN ALMANAC Poem Text First Line: Today there's supposed to be a break Subject(s): Weather AUTUMN'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Rilke walks toward a dime. I saw Last Line: Wander restlessly when leaves are blown. Subject(s): Grasshoppers BARGAIN HUNT Poem Text First Line: Suppose you found a bargain so incredible Subject(s): Life BASTILLE DAY Poem Text First Line: The first time I saw paris Subject(s): Bastille (paris) BEAUJOLAIS VILLAGES First Line: We have to wait. It's not yet time Last Line: Her snapping jaws BENEFIT OF DOUBT First Line: When I was at the age when one's intellectual training seems Last Line: Although you are not there, and never were BIG BLUEJAY COMPOSITION First Line: Compositions in harmony Last Line: Y-you'd b-b-better b-b-believe it! It cried wildly BIRCHES Poem Text First Line: When I see birches Last Line: One could do worse than see birches Subject(s): Birch Trees; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets BLACKTOP First Line: The newly blacktopped highway with the bright yellow stripe down Last Line: And all for you, movie-goers laughing on your way home BOB CREELEY BREAKTHROUGH First Line: This is going well today Last Line: Are making it %impossible! BODY ENGLISH First Line: Say something about still life Last Line: Unique. Subject(s): Detective Stories BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE COURSE First Line: When I close a letter BUCKETS Poem Text First Line: Of rain Last Line: We win Subject(s): Rain; Water CHOCOLATE MILK First Line: Oh god! It's great! Last Line: The wonderful chocolate milk! CLUNK POEM First Line: I pick up the pieces Last Line: That'll show the bastards COFFEE CORNER Poem Text First Line: The large bowls of coffee at breakfast in france Subject(s): Coffee COORS First Line: When I laid out the slices of olive loaf next to the can of coors, I Last Line: Can of coors, I was hit with an intense sensation, the pang of loving %someone I don't really know CUFFLINKS First Line: I am brother to the frankfurter Last Line: A bright idea in a bright emptiness %a photo finish DEAD OR ALIVE IN BELGIUM Poem Text First Line: Somebody you think is dead is alive Subject(s): Life; Death; Belgium; Dead, The DECEMBER First Line: I will sleep Last Line: In my little cup Subject(s): December DEJA VU First Line: I'm back in the saddle again Last Line: And looks down at me DETACH, INVADING Poem Text First Line: Oh humming all and Last Line: Strapping, apricot Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DISGRUNTLED MAN First Line: I brush the hair located on the right side of my head Last Line: With the way he brushed his hair DOG First Line: The new york streets look nude and stupid Last Line: Some dog barking in some street somewhere. %I hate that dog DRINK First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just Last Line: David's car. Yes, this is a contemporary film EARLY TRIANGLES First Line: Can you feel the swell Last Line: Delicate triangles in the afternoon ESSAY ON IMAGINATION First Line: So I go to the baseball stadium Last Line: Of the imagination cannot be contained, no matter how hard we try EUPHUES First Line: I dunno about this euphues Last Line: A tone actually heard in the air EVERYBODY AND HIS UNCLE Poem Text First Line: I was waiting to happen. Subject(s): Family Life; Driving & Drivers; Relatives EXCEPT AT NIGHT First Line: Seurat and gris do meet Last Line: Says seurat, too. Subject(s): Gris, Juan (1887-1927); Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) EXTRA STAR First Line: I am under the impression Last Line: That is your interior settle %back in the afternoon shade %and just take it all in, %one extra hour FAIRY TALE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The little elf is dressed in a floppy cap Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO Poem Text First Line: I am happy to meet you. My name is jose gomez carillo. What is Last Line: The end Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings FAMOUS FLAMES First Line: With all my faults Last Line: Against the wall of the faculty lounge %until his glasses fell on the floor, %burst into flame FANTASY BLOCK Poem Text First Line: I would like to have a sexual fantasy Subject(s): Fantasy; Sex FANTASY FOR KITE AND OBOE First Line: Let's keep going and let loose a little string Last Line: So that the fierce wind is tearing the kite to shreds %one inch from your face that is rosy and roar FIAT ODE Poem Text First Line: Fiat! / you have freed us from our dusty dreadful past Last Line: Because they are dead! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fiat Automobiles; Poetry & Poets FIRST DRIFT First Line: The writing of poems Last Line: The chimpanzee is completing a quadruple somersault %from shining bar to shining bar FLOWER'S ESCAPE First Line: What have we here, a little daisy alongside the footpath Last Line: Bent over a flower that has fled my touch FORTUNE COOKIE MAN First Line: Working for ten years now at the fortune cookie factory and I'm still Last Line: Don't blame me. I just work here FROM HUNGER First Line: Ten til twelve Last Line: Suddenly I feel very hungry GENTLEMEN PREFER CARROTS First Line: I nearly went to sleep standing on a corner today Last Line: Light; and fall coming on GETTING ALONG First Line: We stride briskly down the country lane, bluejay squabble overhead Last Line: I will walk unafraid through a forest of cowboy hats GLOW Poem Text First Line: When I wake up earlier than you and you Subject(s): Waking; Love GOETHE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When kenneth koch Subject(s): Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002) GOETHE First Line: When kenneth koch Last Line: And whose figures are transparent %like our souls, sort of existing %and not existing at the same ti Subject(s): Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002) GRASSHOPPER Poem Text First Line: It's funny when the mind thinks about the psyche Subject(s): Grasshoppers GREETINGS FROM DALMATIA First Line: When I lie down in bed Last Line: With the parade of faces that come back to see you %just as you open my eyes HAIKU First Line: First: five syllables Last Line: Third: five syllables HIGH HEELS First Line: I have a vision Last Line: On the beachball on the next page HOMAGE TO MAX JACOB Poem Text First Line: Goodbye sting and all my columbines Last Line: Not paris. Subject(s): Farewell; Jacob, Max (1876-1944); Parting HOW TO BE A WOODPECKER First Line: I was once asleep, in florida Last Line: I had to leave it for a while, %because I had stopped believing it HOW TO BECOME A TREE IN SWEDEN Poem Text First Line: I look up ahead and see Subject(s): Sweden; Trees HUG Poem Text First Line: The older I get, the more I like hugging, when I was little the Subject(s): Hugs & Hugging HULA First Line: While I was writing my poem Last Line: That we are truly a great nation HUMAN BEING AND THE HUMAN NOTHINGNESS First Line: The question in my mind was whether we had seen sartre at la Last Line: Have assumed that steak au poivre would be the same thing as pepper %steal I REMEMBER LOST THINGS Poem Text First Line: I remember getting letters addressed to me with my name and street Subject(s): Memory I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE Poem Text First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other Last Line: And you know and you know. Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones INDIAN TERRITORY First Line: My wife told me I should come in and write down what I just said Last Line: Which, years, hence, might well suggest, to the sympathetic %eye, a wide open space itself INTERIOR DECORATION First Line: Parts were missing Last Line: The answer has been rearranged IT TURNS OUT Recitation by Author JEOPARDY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when I phoned Subject(s): Television; Mothers; Aging; Tv JET PLANE First Line: Flies across sky Last Line: Flies across sky Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators JOE BRAINARD'S PAINTING 'BINGO' Poem Text First Line: I suffer when I sit next to joe brainard's painting bingo Last Line: She had misunderstood what I had said Subject(s): Brainard, Joe (b. 1942); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN OUTER SPACE Poem Text First Line: Here is my philosophy Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN OUTER SPACE First Line: Here is my philosophy Last Line: Philosophy: buttr and serve LE MOUVEMENT DE CESAR FRANCK First Line: On a laisse des raisins secs Last Line: En triangles d'asphalte Subject(s): Franck, Cesar (1822-1890) LICKED BY IGOR First Line: As I lick the back of the head of a man named igor sikorsky Last Line: But something about this igor sikorsky has made us sad LIGHT AS AIR First Line: It's calm today. I sit outside, or inside by the window, and look out Last Line: And I have the feeling I'm smiling, though I'm not LINES WRITTEN AT COLUMBIA Poem Text First Line: The sky was like a blue blackboard from which Subject(s): Memory; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) LITTLE PAST MIDNIGHT SNACK First Line: On the big oak table I lay out a fresh peach on a white dish, some Last Line: How could anyone not love fairfield porter? Or the food on my %table? LOST AND FOUND Poem Text First Line: Man has lost his gods. Subject(s): Dogs LOUISIANA PERCH Poem Text First Line: Certain words disappear from a language Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary LOUISIANA PERCH First Line: Certain words disappear from a language Last Line: Have hamburgers! Have hamburgers Subject(s): Language LOVE POEM First Line: We have plenty of matches in our house Last Line: With kisses that smolder toward heaven M'SIEUR TARZAN First Line: There comes a point at which you have to sit back and let things Last Line: And sweeps like a maniac through the trailing vines, dressed in his %best suit, a nice dark brown wo MARIANA First Line: The young albanian girl in a green summer dress Last Line: Like the girl, who knows it, and smiles MEDIEVAL YAWN First Line: Who reallys ees anything when he yawns Last Line: Quickly toward the door on this friday afternoon, 3:30 MIR Poem Text First Line: In the shtetl, Subject(s): Villages; Jews; Judaism MISTER HORSE First Line: Mmmm / I get up and am seized by the present Last Line: If I send him to visit you sometime Subject(s): Animals; Horses MORE OF THIS LIGHT First Line: This evening's clear light and light blue pink look like the penguin Last Line: Only the light would stay this way MORNING First Line: Who is here with me? %my mother and an indian man Last Line: I hear my father's breathing change MOST SENSUAL OF RECLUSES Last Line: Were hesitant to address letters in your own hand Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MUSIC LESSON First Line: I would like to tell you a story Last Line: By messmer from all over the world MY COUP First Line: The bright light of what could be an electric angel hits my face Last Line: Bird that comes to the windowsill almost every morning MY OLD MUSE First Line: So who is Last Line: Forty-five, %ugh, old MY ROOM First Line: For many years I had wanted to have a room of my own in a house Last Line: Need of friends among the plants & animals of this earth, & yes, %the humans too, & the rooms we bui NAME First Line: Yours is an ... Up NIGHT JUMP Poem Text First Line: At night chinamen jump Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) NOTHING IN THAT DRAWER Poem Text ODE TO BOHEMIANS Poem Text First Line: The stars at night Last Line: From colorful individuals Subject(s): Bohemians ODE TO BOHEMIANS First Line: The stars at night Last Line: You colorful individuals Subject(s): Bohemians ODE TO CLEMMONS LAURRELL First Line: Immortal clemmons! Last Line: Jump %wonder of wonders ODE TO GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI First Line: D.C. Italian sphinx semi-divine! Fled from egypt's sizzling figs in your Last Line: Twentieth-century poet! Subject(s): Ungaretti, Giuspeppe (1888-1970) ODE TO MUSSOLINI First Line: Mussolini, we do not want your brain in our country! Last Line: For the hideous gray contents of your skull! Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945) ODE TO POLAND First Line: It is embarrassingly true Last Line: Around the lamp as it falls %these are they ODE TO STUPIDITY First Line: Duh - I - %I bet you never heard of huntz hall Last Line: And fly with his message through space and time ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS Poem Text First Line: O astronauts! Last Line: You are pushing the bright new shiny buttons of your machine! Subject(s): Apollo; Astronauts; Mythology - Classical; Planets; Space And Space Travel ODE TO THE FUTURIST PAINTERS AND POETS First Line: Futurist painters and poets! Last Line: Painters and poets! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets OKLAHOMA DAWN First Line: Everything is nice nowhere Last Line: As he pays the green check and saunters out, %a funny nobody, on his way in the oklahoma dawn OLIVETTI LETTERA First Line: Goodbye, little lettera Last Line: Undressing, slowly, in the dark OOO AND AHH First Line: I'd like to write another poem tonight Last Line: Look and actually say 'ooo' and 'ahh.' %that's why this poe m is so short OSWALDO'S SONG First Line: Be glad that, as the world is in various forms of turmoil Last Line: A light breeze rustles the banana palms PASSAGE CHARLES DALLERY First Line: I'm standing in the shade of a tree POEM First Line: Funny, I hear %frank o'hara's Last Line: He's in town tonight POEM First Line: When I am dead and gone Last Line: For the molecules of god %are just tremendous POEM First Line: Just how do you wash a paper plate? Last Line: I come back alive it'll be immediately pleasant %and without all the fuss of starting life again Subject(s): Funerals POEM FOR EL LISSITZKY First Line: Bgawk %there goes that polly again Last Line: Never did sell many vacuum cleaners, though POEM FOR JOAN INGLIS ON HER BIRTHDAY First Line: As he stood saying goodbye Last Line: Small, darkly shaded lamp. Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Joy; Delight POEMA DEL CITY Poem Text First Line: I live in the city Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY First Line: I live in the city Last Line: Silent gray wisps rise from the smouldering campfires Subject(s): Cities POEMA DEL CITY 2 Poem Text First Line: A light chill on the knees Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life POEMA DEL CITY 2 First Line: A light chill on the knees Last Line: This living, to make you cry, or rise %& sneeze, and douse the light Subject(s): Cities POET AS IMMORTAL BIRD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A second ago my heart thump went Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets POETIC LICENSE Poem Text First Line: This license certifies Subject(s): Poetry & Poets POPULAR MECHANICS First Line: Hey, wayne, come in here for a moment!' I called out to the doorway Last Line: You want to go outside?' %'what for?' %'well, we'll find something.' %'so let's go.' POULAIN Poem Text First Line: An orange and blue box of poulain chocolate Last Line: And I pick it up Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tables PROSE POEM First Line: The morning coffee. I'm not sure why I drink it. Maybe it's the ritual of the Last Line: Unaware of what has happened to the world READING REVERDY Poem Text First Line: The wind that went through the head left it plural Last Line: I get up on top of an inhuman voice. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) RED BENDIX First Line: A red bendix %belts out its great aria Last Line: Something there, something %utterly horrible REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Poem Text First Line: I'm afraid father's hair is slightly cancelled Last Line: In the manner of a painting a work of art. Subject(s): Memory; Past RIALTO Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Poetry & Poets; Names; Stage Life RINSO Poem Text First Line: The slight agitation Subject(s): Dishes RUE DE RENNES First Line: I have always had an irrational fear Last Line: Up the street and suddenly accelerates %into the far distance. I %am alone here on the rue de rennes SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS First Line: My wife and I have been meaning to buy a set of salt and pepper Last Line: At them can describe the society that produced them, just as you %can read this and know me SECOND WHY First Line: I have always found mark twain to be a rather depressing Last Line: Sane, civilized, benevolent SLEEP ALARM First Line: Just as some guy %is proposing to suzanne pleshette Last Line: Books along the wall SMOKE Poem Text First Line: I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes' Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE First Line: I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes' Last Line: They left, and they looked, but %they never did find that pack of cigarettes Subject(s): Smoking SNOW First Line: The light pink cone, the light green square, and Last Line: Who invented the alphabet %has not yet melted, %that in dreams begin responsibilities, %that I am st SOME BOMBS; AFTER REVERDY Poem Text First Line: One goes by like some oafs Last Line: Lash larue is rio grande and tristan comma a bully fardle Subject(s): Bombs; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) SONG First Line: Little violet %all alone Last Line: Just like his mother STORK First Line: As I write I keep looking back Last Line: I wish it'd happen STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO Poem Text First Line: At 14th street and first avenue Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SWEET PEA First Line: You are sweeter than the sweet pea Last Line: Stars I bless, bless for having you TALKING TO VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY First Line: All right, I admit it Last Line: Vladimir had left the poem THE BEST THING I DID Poem Text Subject(s): Mothers THE BLIND DOG OF VENICE First Line: The tartar sauce lesson was misunderstood Last Line: Reveal the gentleman lawn reclining in a gesture of crassness. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE CENTER OF GRAVITY Poem Text First Line: The military jeep was said Subject(s): Gravitation THE COMPLETE WORKS First Line: The big black bear and the prowling panther lived near our beautiful school Last Line: At last at dusk the brisk skate returned. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Poetry & Poets THE COUNTRY FAIR Poem Text First Line: The holstein looks at us with big eyes but with no expression Subject(s): Animals; Country Fairs THE DEATH DEAL Poem Text First Line: Ever since that moment Subject(s): Mortality THE DRINK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine THE EMS DISPATCH Poem Text First Line: Opening up a mud duck Last Line: The close call packed away and sniffing at the edge Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FARMER'S HEAD Poem Text First Line: At that instant there came a crash more terrific than any that had Last Line: He was rapidly shouting this as he ran from the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FORTUNE COOKIE MAN Poem Text First Line: Working for ten years now at the fortune cookie factory and I'm still not allowed to write Subject(s): Fortune Cookies THE HAUNTED HOUSE First Line: Put a coin on the doorstep. Gears begin Last Line: Fades back into the house. Subject(s): Haunted Houses THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION Poem Text First Line: I think the deed was richer than dying Last Line: Set up machine guns over the stale bellyaching of our books Subject(s): Death; War THE LIFE OF M. First Line: The true test of a man is a bunt. So kiss me! Last Line: Besides, the gaucho is almost here. Subject(s): Life THE LOVE COOK Poem Text Recitation First Line: Let me cook you some dinner. Subject(s): Love; Cooking & Cooks; Cookery THE RED POOL Poem Text First Line: Oh dear here we are again in a pool of blood Subject(s): Wine THE SANDWICH MAN First Line: The funny thing is that he's reading a paper Last Line: And the horrible license plate on it Subject(s): Strangers THE STAPLER Poem Text First Line: When my mother died Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The THE STATUE OF A LIBERTINE Poem Text First Line: I've chosen this title not only because I like it Last Line: Detonates the very tip Subject(s): Statues THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I never quite understood who Subject(s): Names THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT Poem Text First Line: Boing, boing, boing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THINK AND DO Poem Text First Line: I always have to be doing something, accomplishing some- Subject(s): Activity; Exercise THIS FOR THAT Poem Text First Line: What will I have for breakfast? Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Plums; Plum Trees THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: The butterfly / flies up like pow Last Line: "like a woman’s face to pow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY First Line: The butterfly %flies up like pow Last Line: Like a woman's face to powder Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects THREE ANIMALS: THE ELECTRIC EEL Poem Text First Line: The electric eel / slides through the water Last Line: It lights up Subject(s): Eels THREE ANIMALS: THE ELECTRIC EEL First Line: The electric eel %slides through the water Last Line: It lights up Subject(s): Eels THREE ANIMALS: THE GIRAFFE Poem Text First Line: The 2 f's / in giraffe Last Line: Like 2 giraffes Subject(s): Giraffes THREE ANIMALS: THE GIRAFFE First Line: The 2 f's %in giraffe Last Line: Like 2 giraffes Subject(s): Giraffes THREE LITTLE POEMS First Line: I call you on %the 'phone & Last Line: Few are. 4:51 %and darker TO FRANCIS SAUF QUE First Line: You think of everything Last Line: Are there two of us here instead? Subject(s): Love TO WOODY WOODPECKER First Line: I love you, woody Last Line: The heart has seven minutes %with woody woodpecker, %seven minutes of pure bliss TOM AND JERRY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL First Line: It is an english countryside Last Line: An ordinary man %in shoes that glow %a bright yellow %and an orange lightning tieclasp TONE ARM First Line: The clouds go rolling over Last Line: A shirt is here, too Subject(s): Columbia University; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers TRAVEL Poem Text First Line: The little clock dings on the roof UNABLE TO NAP IN KINDERGARTEN First Line: I am lying on a light blue corduroy pallet Last Line: The weight %of the world lying below in a rocky rubble Subject(s): Kindergarten UNTITLED First Line: On the album cover of my ten-inch kindertotenlieder Last Line: This record: it is too beautiful, and too sad VISIT FROM HURRICANE BOB First Line: A hurricane, even one named bob Last Line: Stood there like cows, right where they were VOICE Poem Text First Line: I have always laughed Subject(s): Writing & Writers VOICE First Line: I have always laughed Last Line: Wish to remain a phony the rest of my life Subject(s): Writing And Writers VOICE AND FUR Poem Text First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VOICE AND FUR First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Last Line: Drizzle across the clouds that are %now starting to separate Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WALKING AND TALKING First Line: Why don't I write about kenward and patty Last Line: As I have this one (words in my head) WAY OF ALL HANDWRITING First Line: As long as there is hair on the human head Last Line: Fall into the ionosphere %where even combs go when they die,%perfected, like first crayons, %bright WHEN I THINK MORE OF MY OWN FUTURE THAN OF MYSELF First Line: Coming out of the bathroom Last Line: Between love and death Subject(s): Future WHO AND EACH First Line: I got up early sunday morning Last Line: Thus I spend my days, %waiting for my friends to die WICKERWARE First Line: This must be the sophomore jinx honeymoon Last Line: (abraham lincoln shot in the back.) WILSON '57 First Line: A terrific blast Last Line: Next year! Keep %up your great %smash WIND Poem Text First Line: Now it is over and everyone knew it Last Line: "the postcard making it ""right"" instead of wrong" Subject(s): Exchange Students; Germany; Foreign Exchange Programs; Germans WISCONSIN First Line: It's hard to find that little room again WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life WITH LEE REMICK AT MIDNIGHT First Line: The lights shoot off the windows at the plaza Last Line: As evening settles down in its glorious space %and I shoot down the slide and up, and out Subject(s): Cities WONDERFUL THINGS Poem Text First Line: Anne, who are dead and whom I loved in a rather asinine fashion Last Line: Tell you wonderful things Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation WORDS FROM THE FRONT Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Youth WORDS TO JOE CERAVOLO First Line: I think tonight I am beginning to understand some impulses Last Line: You're o.K. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy Y..R D..K First Line: It w.S c....H f.R t..M to go b..K to t.E h..E Last Line: No m..E o.......E to it t..N to a b...N d.G Subject(s): Alphabet Verse YAK AND YAK First Line: I am saying Last Line: In the flowing beat of the night's heart YOU AGAIN Poem Text First Line: I think I'm smoking too much too many cigarettes Last Line: Every day this week and I'm glad I don't drink so there Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Substance Abuse; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Addictive Behavior |
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