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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: dorn, edward Matches Found: 238 Dorn, Edward Poet's Biography 238 poems available by this author Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: The function of the heliograph Subject(s): Geronimo (1829-1909 A PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Captain emmet crawford Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Scouting & Scouts; Irony; Southwest; Pacific States ABHORRENCES: BASELINE VOCABULARY INTRODUCED BY... First Line: Here we go again Last Line: Rawhide %motelery %deep coma aroma %hollywooden ADIOS TO OSTENTATION First Line: The end of the line Last Line: Almost to cracking his glaze Subject(s): West (u.s.) AID(E) MEMOIRE First Line: If you screw Last Line: The gamble and drink %directly from the sewer AINCHA SICK OF 'EM? First Line: The u.S. Turned thumbs down Last Line: Which produces a convexity %in front AIR OF JUNE SINGS First Line: Quietly and while at rest on the trim grass I have gazed Last Line: Oh, the stones not yet cut ALL IN THE NAME OF CHILD-PROOF CAPS First Line: It isn't that time flies Last Line: Of the markers on the mood elevators AMERICA THE BUICK First Line: A smouldering red light Last Line: But the work %wasn't done in a body shop AMERICA, REALLY, NO KIDDING, THE BEAUTIFUL First Line: It's music on your radio Last Line: But I can't really kiss you baby %becauze your saliva is undefined AND THEN HE THOUGHT Last Line: When all creatures could talk Subject(s): West (u.s.) ANOTHER SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES First Line: I called up to see Last Line: Our highly touted & deregulated %communications system? APOCRYPHAL OR NOT First Line: One of boulder's sleazier restaurants Last Line: A shirt and a pair of shoes ARE THEY DANCING? First Line: There is a sad carnival up the valley Last Line: And are they dancing: or gazing at the earth ARMALITE RESOLUTION First Line: I'm not going to be Last Line: It's the other direction for me ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A treacherous fiendish look (bartlett Last Line: Than of any other animal Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS First Line: A treacherous fiendish look (bartlett Last Line: Than that of any other animal (gregg Subject(s): West (u.s.) AT THE COWBOY PANEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: About an hour before lunch Subject(s): West (u.s.); Cowboys; Southwest; Pacific States AT THE COWBOY PANEL First Line: About an hour before lunch Last Line: Of the horror and agony we had counted on Subject(s): West (u.s.) BARBED PRAISE (1) First Line: People who own cats Last Line: In a dog house, %with the doggone BARBED PRAISE (2) First Line: Barbed praise %is the best praise of all Last Line: The face of god %because the seals broke BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA First Line: The windblown scream of the siren Subject(s): Perpetual Motion BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA First Line: The windblown scream of the siren Last Line: Who says perpetual motion is unattainable Subject(s): Perpetual Motion BOULDER MUNDANE First Line: It is all very continuous here Last Line: But few babies are born BOUNTY TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When victorio was killed accidentally Last Line: Who flew back to tejas to clean up the landscape Subject(s): West (u.s.); Accidents; Death; Southwest; Pacific States BOUNTY TIME First Line: When victorio was killed accidentally Last Line: Who flew back to tejas to clean up the landscape Subject(s): West (u.s.) BY DEFINITION First Line: The construction business Last Line: A semi-circle of citizens %hands cupping their ears CALENDAR GIRL AT EDDIE'S First Line: Sheer silver pants Last Line: Just now returned from bangkock %with a load of batik beds CALIFORNIA USAGE First Line: Everyone is either Last Line: Something rose bird failed %utterly to comprehend CASTING THE FIRST PUFFBALL First Line: Moral bankruptcy Last Line: Only with $20 gold pieces %and they aren't in circulation CHRONICLE First Line: It is january 12 Last Line: This air will kill us all %ere long CIRCUS OF HOKUM OR HOW MANY COOKIE JARS MAKE A BUSHEL First Line: A string of little boys Last Line: (the nurse, after all, %was reading the bible CLAPTRAP NOMENKLAUTRA OF WESTERN REGIMES First Line: Zero tolerance %will never equal intolerance Last Line: And a hammer, and some nails %and a door! COME TO SOUTH AMERICA A CONTINENTAL THEME PARK First Line: See %fascism in action Last Line: Rapidly degenerating venue CONDOM MANIA: THE INS AND OUTS First Line: Latex tappers in liberia Last Line: Who the hell ever %called'em condoms anyway COOKING THE CORPSE First Line: And yet again, another Last Line: Has been the guiding principle %in politics, economy & disease COUP DE GUERRE IN A TEACUP First Line: What the palestinians Last Line: Bring back the phillistines CREATION Recitation by Author First Line: There was a time Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States CREATION First Line: There was a time Last Line: I am thinking earth Subject(s): West (u.s.) CREDO ALFREDO First Line: I will never shop Last Line: There are bananas all right, %whole counties full CRIME DEPENDS ON THE JUDGE First Line: It isn't only that Last Line: Of opposites. Managers never understand %that fairness is not up to them CYNDI LAUPER First Line: We didn't really Last Line: Until we went to japan %and australia DAFFODIL SONG Poem Text First Line: The horns of yellow Subject(s): Daffodils DARK CEILING Poem Text First Line: Broad black scar the valley is DECISON TAKEN WITH LITTLE THOUGHT AND EVEN LESS PAIN First Line: I want to hear power Last Line: So I turned off all things considered DEGENERATION OF THE GREEKS First Line: It was said-timeo danaos Last Line: Hang in the open market covered with flies DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Shaving lotion fresh Last Line: Airport in the universe Subject(s): West (u.s.); Air Travel; Southwest; Pacific States DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT First Line: Shaving lotion fresh Last Line: With a ludicrously sour curl %on his mouth Subject(s): West (u.s.) DIFFERENTLY ABLED First Line: The eighties inventiveness Last Line: Could crack nuts %using his dick as a hammer DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT First Line: The campaign by the city of boulder Last Line: Will barely accommodate a baby carriage DON'T GIVE UP, IT'S ONLY NATURAL First Line: The envy all writers felt like a needle Last Line: That's an even more awful truth DON'T JUST STAND THERE, GET SOMETHING! First Line: But the worship of liberty Last Line: On your hand and sticking it in the mouth of a crocodile DRESS FOR WAR Recitation by Author First Line: Tallow shampoo so the hair is sleek & obedient Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans – Wars; Southwest; Pacific States DRESS FOR WAR First Line: Tallow shampoo so the hair is sleek & obedient Last Line: Every trace of civilization %from their province Subject(s): West (u.s.) EAT ALL YOU WANT First Line: Fake fat %is the most Last Line: Joan rivers an idiot %from the swamps ED MEESE SCROLLS First Line: Kicking ed meese Last Line: This is the tradition END First Line: Did you know that Last Line: He'd have considered it tax relief ENTROPY First Line: No matter how smart Last Line: They're going to look %not so smart on t v EUPHEMISMO INC First Line: Did anybody need a neologism Last Line: It's better than fusion in a pot EVAPORATION AS A CAREER First Line: She should have a black hat Last Line: She already has a ricky lee jones tape %stuck in her cassette EVERY EXAMPLE TELLS A STORY First Line: Like everything else Last Line: Rock & roll %is here to go away EXCEPTION FOR COURTROOM BEHAVIOR First Line: In sparks, nevada Last Line: People should be allowed %to show up drunk EXCERPT FROM GUNSLINGER First Line: I met in mesilla %the cautious gunslinger Last Line: Their corded necks are arching %toward the journey FIFTEEN HUNDRED TONS OF HAY @ 1 CENT PER POUND Recitation by Author First Line: Gen. Crook proved to a skeptical world Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States FIFTEEN HUNDRED TONS OF HAY @ 1 CENT PER POUND First Line: Gen. Crook proved to a skeptical world Last Line: With small sickles & butcher knives Subject(s): West (u.s.) FIRE DOWN BELOW First Line: Evening shadows lengthen Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States FIRE DOWN BELOW First Line: Evening shadows lengthen Last Line: Doing something behond staying out %of the way of flame Subject(s): West (u.s.) FIRST LINES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: It is bright to recollect Last Line: Names never from animals Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Babies; Southwest; Pacific States FIRST LINES First Line: It is bright to recollect Last Line: Never from animals Subject(s): West (u.s.) FISHING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA IN JULY First Line: I have never been fishing on the susquehanna Last Line: I imagined him springing right out of the frame FLATLAND First Line: People make a lot of fun Last Line: In a lot of places %the earth is flat FOR THE NEW UNION DEAD IN ALABAMA First Line: The rose of sharon %I lost in the tortured night Last Line: Cast us back %into isolation FOREIGN POLICY; ANOTHER CHEAP IMPORT First Line: Shamir says we agree Last Line: It wld be cheaper %and better made FREE MARKET CHINOISERIE First Line: There will never be enough bmws Last Line: Someone should tell them FROM GLOUCESTER OUT First Line: It has all %come back today Last Line: The whispers of the most flung shores %from gloucester out GARGLING DRAINO First Line: Note: jenny - rec'd phone call Last Line: Of either sex with nothing to do %but order a single copy GEN. MILES IMAGINED Last Line: The function of the heliograph Subject(s): West (u.s.) GENERIC EIGHTIES First Line: Anything you can push Last Line: Pull, %or tow in GERONIMO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: We call his mother juana Last Line: With a light behind them Subject(s): West (u.s.); Geronimo (1829-1909); Southwest; Pacific States GERONIMO First Line: We call his mother juana Last Line: With a light behind them Subject(s): West (u.s.) GOD CREATES MAN! Recitation by Author First Line: There's no problem with Last Line: And he was a traveller / like mercury Subject(s): God; Creation; Odin (norse God); Southwest; Pacific States GOD CREATES MAN! First Line: There's no problem with Last Line: And he was a traveller %like mercury Subject(s): West (u.s.) GUNSLINGER 1, SELS. First Line: I met in mesilla Last Line: Hang out with some curious refugees Subject(s): West (u.s.) GUNSLINGER. PART I Poem Text First Line: I met in mesilla Last Line: Lets have that drink Subject(s): West (u.s.); Gunslingers; Southwest; Pacific States HAND HELD REFRIGERATOR First Line: Every time he crushed Last Line: He blew a hole in the ozone cover HANDLE ME LUSTILY...ERE THE BLOOD-RUSH CEASE First Line: Nay, not for the prophet will I plunge my toe therin! Last Line: And for some time thereafter %we throw words all over the page HARVESTING ORGANS: ON THE HEAD-INJURY DEATH OF A 24 YEAR... First Line: Several specialists 'flew' in from pittsburgh Last Line: After all, they run around the most, %they are the fittest HATCH CATCH First Line: What's a few rads to hatch Last Line: For the people of the wooden submarine HATE WITHOUT STYLE First Line: If those patriots Last Line: Don't they put it in a samsonite %and deliver it? HAZARDOUS SEX (AS DISTINCT FROM SAFE SEX ) First Line: Sex with an electronic bug Last Line: And obviously, and no matter how tempting, sex with soviet %women HAZARDS OF A LATER ERA: VARIATION ON A THEME First Line: I would like to thank you Last Line: And you have %the whole sorry picture HE SPITS, THEREFORE HE IS SPITTLE First Line: Of course, all futures are loaded Last Line: A beacon of magnitude %in the acres of time HEART OF COPPER First Line: The candidate, answering a question Last Line: To mention south dakota. %perhaps it's too far north HI HYPE BUDGETTE First Line: When you spend more Last Line: Than you spend %on the thing you're defending HIDE OF MY MOTHER First Line: My mother, who has a hide HOLY WEENIES First Line: The mall is crawling Last Line: I'm getting it on radio HOMAGE TO KAREN CARPENTER First Line: Starvatin is not Last Line: About hazard diets %will change any of that HOME ON THE RANGE, FEBRUARY, 1962 First Line: Flutes, and the harp on the plain Last Line: And consider it dirty - a joke their daughters learn %from their new husbands HOMO SAP First Line: What could be more predictable Last Line: The faustian bargain on a brechtian stage, %a fire sale in a furniture dome HOTEL HARTLEY DOWN BY THE BAYOU AS DICK PREPARES FOR NY Recitation by Author First Line: Secure, with the rumble of wig-town Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States HOTEL HARTLEY DOWN BY THE BAYOU AS DICK PREPARES FOR NY First Line: Secure, with the rumble of wig-town Last Line: I've got a fair chance of getting there Subject(s): West (u.s.) I LIKE A BUSY VIEW First Line: Framed in the french doors Last Line: Just a passing gas, and ozone holes %letting the sunshine in I'LL NEVER APOLOGIZE AGAIN! First Line: In the so-called aporetic dialogues Last Line: Reworded in terms of the questioner's %own principles I'M CLEAN, HOW ABOUT YOU? First Line: I never ordered a general Last Line: In fact, I'm an exemplary non-entity IBW TOENOTE First Line: The ibw is notorious Last Line: For the light to change %is not really driving anyway ICE IS THE LEAD OF WATER'S GOLD First Line: And then the shuttle became Last Line: No matter how high the techno perch %plumbing still rules the roost IDLE THOUGHTS AT THE ST MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION First Line: Ed sanders is the only optimist Last Line: Allen ginsberg is the only poet %the greeks never produced IF IT SHOULD EVER COME Poem Text First Line: And we are all there together Last Line: From the newly fallen Subject(s): Aging INDEPENDENT BOULDER WOMAN Last Line: But in either case, to her, %it will be 'no joke.' IT COULD BE ANYONE First Line: It is total nonsense Last Line: It could be the guy next door JAR WARS 2 First Line: Just saying no to drugs Last Line: For the babies with flippers %and five eyes JIM WRIGHT First Line: Polish luxury brought him down Last Line: Ask any injun, that's the first thing they noticed JUH & GERONIMO Recitation by Author First Line: Friends from boyhood Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States JUH & GERONIMO First Line: Friends from boyhood Last Line: Of the norte americanos Subject(s): West (u.s.) LA MAQUINA A HOUSTON Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The train has come to rest and ceased its creaking Last Line: Before they fell away in exhaustion Subject(s): West (u.s.); Railways; Southwest; Pacific States LA MAQUINA A HOUSTON First Line: The train has come to rest and ceased its creaking Last Line: Before they fell away in exhaustion Subject(s): West (u.s.) LACKEY STACKED UPON LACKEY First Line: The one red leaf, the last of its clan Last Line: For all the love that was of no account %and all the misleading feeling LEMMA JAPONAISE First Line: The speculating economist asks Last Line: Would better serve their goofy progeny %by banning walkman LIFE IS A LAKE OF LUKEWARM PINKISH YELLOW SNOT First Line: There was the time we wasted Last Line: From a north dakota moose herd LOCK THE DOOR First Line: I'm going' down Last Line: Gonna get %down on %my knees %and stay LOGICAL APPOINTMENTS: OR GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT... First Line: What do you do Last Line: Who used to be a lobbyist for lockheed LOS MINEROS First Line: Now it is winter and the fallen snow Last Line: Every window has been abused with the rocks of departing children LOS OCHENTAS First Line: No porn %to speak of Last Line: But filth %by the %boatload MARTYRS OPERA First Line: It's all way behind california here Last Line: But that's good - the fact that %they think once is the horror of it MAXIMUM OSTENTATION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Hyattecture is all strut and stage Last Line: Launched themselves as if from cape canaveral Subject(s): Southwest; Pacific States MAXIMUM OSTENTATION First Line: Hyattecture is all strut and stage Last Line: Brie and reference, and ucla women Subject(s): West (u.s.) MEDIOCRE FRIDAY First Line: In rome the pontiff carried a crucifix Last Line: It was still a mediocre friday MOMENTUM OF THE EXCREMENTUM First Line: The late eighties really got frantic Last Line: The steaks were high, %and the sperm was great MOTEL SUPERBO First Line: A sleepwalker from continent I Last Line: Sending tics through the ignorant sleepers MOVING, INVISIBLE SPECTRE OF PHRATRY ON TRATOR PEACHES First Line: Who can tell what a traitor is Last Line: The frenzy of survival rushing from our pores Subject(s): West (u.s.) NANA & VICTORIO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Along this spine of dragoon mountains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Southwest; Pacific States NANA & VICTORIO First Line: Along this spine of dragoon mountains Last Line: As we unweave this corrupted cloth Subject(s): West (u.s.) NANAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Great hardness in old age Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States NANAY First Line: Great hardness in old age Last Line: To wear al huge gold watchchain Subject(s): West (u.s.) NEOLOJIZEM First Line: Unacceptalbe' %is a strange term Last Line: Being shoved down %their collective throat NEVER LOSE AN ENEMY, IF YOU CAN HELP IT First Line: On capturing the disapproval Last Line: Surged through my peptide chains NINETEEN EIGHTY EIGHT MANIAC First Line: I'm going to take this fucking year Last Line: Around the first sports announcer I hear NOT GOOD, BUT GETTING BETTER: DOG FIGHTS ON THE INCREASE... First Line: It would have been as good to live Last Line: It's just dog shit--a society of hi-tek dogshit NOT SO HARD WIRED, BUT SOMETHING TO DO First Line: Recusants who never wrote Last Line: Like a herd of gallsick cattle NOVELS SOMEBODY WITH NOTHING TO DO SHOULD WRITE First Line: The long breakfast Last Line: The long nice day %the long so long ODE ON THE FACELIFTING OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY First Line: America is inconceivable without drugs Last Line: In the only country in the world %with a shop called the drug store ODE ON THE FACELIFTING OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: America is inconceivable without drugs Subject(s): United States; Narcotics; America OECOLOGICAL CAUTION First Line: I drive everywhere Last Line: But I don't like the look %of the pedestrians OFF THE WALDHEIM First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations; Arab-israeli Conflict OFF THE WALDHEIM First Line: The papal audience is about as low as it gets Last Line: Was cozying up to the palestinians at the u.N Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; United Nations OLD-FASHIONED PROBLEM: CUNDURANGO WON'T HELP First Line: He had gonorrhoea Last Line: Of the go(a)norhynchus %(oh, isospondyli) ! ON LOSING ONE'S COOLANT First Line: Along about the 6th inning Last Line: Whereupon I stuck a few pins %in my ed koch doll ORIGINAL MONUMENTS OF PERCEPTION Last Line: Through the wall's membrane Subject(s): West (u.s.) OUT OF THE SUNSET MOVEMENT Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: Out of the sunrisd invaion Subject(s): Sun OUT OF THE SUNSET MOVEMENT Last Line: Out of the sunrise invasion Subject(s): West (u.s.) OXFORD: 3. COMFORTED BY LIMESTONE First Line: The blocks %which are the buildings and walls Last Line: And the lynn deeps PANAMA First Line: An embarrassingly public dogfight Last Line: North of the rio grande Subject(s): Panama PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY First Line: Captain emmet crawford Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness Subject(s): West (u.s.) PERMISSION REFUSED First Line: I used to say frisco all the time Last Line: But now that it's ok I'll stop PERSONA Poem Text First Line: The women circle the men in conference Last Line: Is the highest mutation of force Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PERSONA First Line: The women circle the men in conference Last Line: Is the highest mutation of force Subject(s): West (u.s.) PHILIPPINE PHENOMENOLOGY First Line: If you can figure out Last Line: In charge of the national budget %of the u.S.A PIECE OF ADVICE: IT IS FAR BETTER TO COPTER IN, BUT First Line: In hughestown, it is good Last Line: For exaggeration's sake Subject(s): West (u.s.) POPULATION CONTROL IN BOULDER First Line: Bright zebras mark the free zone Last Line: Pediforms are on their own in bo-town POW-WOW IN GENEVA First Line: Stock market up 8 points Last Line: Or that the capitalists are %just on another optimism binge? PRICE IS RIGHT: A TORTURE WHEEL OF FORTUNE First Line: The show did not start off Last Line: Because not one in a million %knew the answer PRODUCTS WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY SIMPLE TO DESPISE IN OUR STATE First Line: The use of the word I go Last Line: I'm outa here when they haven't even left PROGRESS: SLOW BUT INEXORABLE First Line: He set out to buy the american dream Last Line: Now all he needed was a swing %and a house and a car PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND PATENTED GERMS First Line: The bacillus slaves Last Line: It was easier to make a hole than a pole PROTESTANT VIEW First Line: That eternal dissent Last Line: Servitude of blind %obedience PROVOKING FIGURE OF THE HORSEWOMAN First Line: Victorio's seester was no pocahontas Last Line: To something khaki looking vaguely like shit Subject(s): West (u.s.) PUBLIC SEVICE MESSAGE First Line: It is reiterated Last Line: This is the style of new justice %to pre-select longevity QUATRAIN NABOKO First Line: I kicked a wasp Last Line: Told it to come back %when it was a butterfly QUESTION SELDOM ASKED AND NEVER ANSWERED First Line: How often should men Last Line: What are their box numbers? RADIO NOSTALGIA First Line: Yes, we put a man Last Line: We should have left %the son-of-a-bitch there RE-PUBLICANS!!! First Line: Meat on the table. Women dancing Last Line: Their horns aloft, sloshing over with korona RECETTE ECONOMIQUE First Line: I've always found much Last Line: I have one modest proposal: %feed them to the poor RECOLLECTIONS OF ADVICE TO WHITEGUYS First Line: Be observant of people around you Last Line: To crawl through heavy smoke RESERVATIONS Recitation by Author First Line: This material yields Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States RESERVATIONS First Line: This material yields Last Line: Know what a crisis is Subject(s): West (u.s.) RESULT OF A SOCIETY COMPOSED OF CASTAWAYS First Line: The signature of the flow of money Last Line: Be against the law for people to shit on the street RICK OF GREEN WOOD First Line: In the woodyard were green and dry Last Line: Pleasantly, of the green wood and the dry ROUGH PASSAGE ON I-80 First Line: We are travelling through the country Last Line: The best ones have been dead a long time ROUTINES, IMMANE PROCEEDINGS, HANDCLAPS First Line: The kewt gestapo girls of tri delta Last Line: Transfixed in the glare of a robocat SELF CRITICISM First Line: I accept the present emperium Last Line: But even that doubt is a sign of my humility SILVER'S UP A NICKEL First Line: Far in the past Last Line: They have it all, all but the impetus SIN CASAS First Line: Capitalism in action Last Line: To make the minions cringe Subject(s): Capitalism SLIPPING OF THE WHEEL First Line: They were sentenced to observe Last Line: Looks toward from the past Subject(s): West (u.s.) SMOKE & CINDERS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE TRUCKERS First Line: Every time I hear the dispatches Last Line: I wonder, %do they have some other model %for the brutes? SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE First Line: It's quite ironic, come to think of it Last Line: Bless them, they are such earnest hypocrites SO LONG PARDNER, YOU'RE BOUND TO BE BETTER THAN 1988 First Line: When the world had a c word Last Line: Construed (not that you can do that SO THE INFANT IS BOUND Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: Invites them to get ready Subject(s): Babies SO THE INFANT IS BOUND Last Line: Come directly from the landform Subject(s): West (u.s.) SOLO PRETENDRE First Line: The persians have been at it Last Line: They should read milton SOME MORE OSTENTATION First Line: Meanwhile Last Line: A techniques panel with his iq Subject(s): West (u.s.) SOME THINGS DO CHANGE First Line: Now they build the house Last Line: They built swimming pools for their enemies SOMETHING WE CAN ALL AGREE ON First Line: Suppose there were a new Last Line: Much tea & sympathy for this plague? %neither do I STOP COMPLAINING: ON NOT BEING CO-OPTED First Line: If someone offers you drugs Last Line: Of a bunker-like tylenol check-out STUPID AS A ONE WAY STREET First Line: I like phyllis oakley-she's Last Line: We've had the most medically odd %apologists - why is that? SUMMER EVENING IN BOULDER First Line: A table full of plastic and bottlecaps Last Line: Where the plutonium blows %and the buffalo moan SUNDAY MORNING IN THE MURDERED TERRITORIES Recitation by Author First Line: This poor, old shoetrod Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SUNDAY MORNING IN THE MURDERED TERRITORIES First Line: This poor, old shoetrod Last Line: In tales of the motile Subject(s): West (u.s.) THE AIR OF JUNE SINGS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Quietly and while at rest on the green grass I have gazed THE MOVING, INVISIBLE SPECTRE OF PHRATRY ON TRATOR PEACHES Recitation by Author First Line: Who can tell what a traitor is Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE PRICE IS RIGHT: A TORTURE WHEEL OF FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: The show did not start off Subject(s): Television; Tv THE PROVOKING FIGURE OF THE HORSEWOMAN Recitation by Author First Line: Victorio's seester was no pocahontas Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE RICK OF THE GREEN WOOD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the woodyard were green and dry Subject(s): Wood THE SIN CASAS First Line: Capitalism in action Subject(s): Capitalism THE SLIPPING OF THE WHEEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: They were sentenced to observe Last Line: Looks forward from the past Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Southwest; Pacific States THE TRIUMPH OF THE HOMINIDS Recitation by Author First Line: After a while Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE WHOLE EUROPEAN DISTINCTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The longest continuous run Last Line: The predictive mind Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THERE'S ONLY ONE NATURAL DEATH, AND EVEN THAT'S BEDCIDE... First Line: Death by over-seasoning: herbicide Last Line: Death following a decision: decide THESE TIMES ARE MEDIEVAL First Line: They'd just as soon sell ya Last Line: And they'd rather %killya than feedya THESIS First Line: Only the illegitimate are beautiful Last Line: The shudder of total winter in whose %misshapen sun the children bathe THIS MARCH AFTERNOON Poem Text First Line: Pride kept me away THOU SHALT NOT KILL: OH YES I WILL! First Line: They beat each other on the haid Last Line: We could leave it at that TIME TO BUY AND A TIME TO CRY First Line: These are the official symptoms Last Line: Of an afternoon %spent at the shopping mall TOURING THE BLOATED VOID First Line: Why is it the uninterrupted brutalities Last Line: From the people who are so shocked %by apartheid? TRIUMPH OF THE HOMINIDS First Line: After a while Last Line: Must have a lot in common Subject(s): West (u.s.) TUESDAY WAS A FAIT ACCOMPLI, NOT A RAISON D'ETRE:... First Line: My friend george has a theory Last Line: The honor of the office - whereas now %ideology is all TURK First Line: Leading off with a statement Last Line: He'd shoot the pope UNRECORDED ACT IS NOT ONE THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE First Line: It isn't that the ollie & fawn follies Last Line: She could have as appropriately said %'below the law.' VAQUERO First Line: The cowboy stands beneath %a brick-orange moon Last Line: Are blue. The top of the sky %is too VICTORIO Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is a season of gold Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States VICTORIO First Line: There is a season of gold Last Line: The most terrible %the most famous Subject(s): West (u.s.) VIZUTEK First Line: That's where %you just see Last Line: Whatcha wanta VULGARITY OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT... First Line: When I received my first doses Last Line: Passions much truer than mere admiration %and always more honest WAIT TILL THE CHRISTIANS HEAR ABOUT THIS! First Line: In his effort to get prayer into the schools Last Line: Seeing jeanne kirkpatrick's frosty heart %raised to the hearthen skies WEATHER REPORT First Line: Golfball size hail Last Line: And could wish %it'd been soccerball size WELCOME HOME First Line: Riding across the arid plains Last Line: Across the intersection, %a preposterous winnebago WHEN THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: To correct an error Subject(s): Native Americans WHEN THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION Last Line: To correct an error of omission Subject(s): West (u.s.) WHEN THE FAIRIES COME BACK TO SANTE FE WHEN VALUES GET RELATIVE, VALUE GETS GOING First Line: The worse john power was Last Line: They'll keep that wall, and defend it to the death WHERE THERE IS WEALTH Last Line: Where there is poverty, %let us create downright misery WHILE YOU'RE AT IT First Line: As long as you're closing the window of vulnerability Last Line: Just throw in a few slices of the bacon of compatibility %and fry well WHOLE EUROPEAN DISTINCTION First Line: The longest continuous run Last Line: The predictive mind Subject(s): West (u.s.) WHY DO THEY TELL US WHAT THEY TELL US? First Line: Since all the stats Last Line: To 'saying no to everyone you know.' WHY IS WANTING TO KILL RONALD REAGON Last Line: Makes sense to me WISCONSIN HUNTERS TO THE CHIPPEWAS First Line: Now, if you eat kentucky fried chicken Last Line: Which we didn't make, %have got to be abergated WORLD VIEW SOLIPSIZED First Line: The oecologists now say Last Line: But it would have no standing %among the insects WORSE THAN TAPEWORM First Line: Nixon was dark Last Line: Because the exploiter and the exploited %entered oblivion together WOULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION First Line: Let's forget the awesome moral goofyness Last Line: Whether I put it in the out %or in the in basket |
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