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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: corso, gregory Matches Found: 200 Corso, Gregory Nunzio Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory 200 poems available by this author 12 ASH ST. PLACE First Line: That house is a ghost of pretty things Last Line: I told him I didn't think that was nice of him %because the color burned 1959 First Line: Uncomprimising year I see no meaning to life Last Line: Must I settle into phantomness %and not say I understand things better than god? 2 WEIRD HAPPENINGS IN HAARLEM First Line: Four windmills, acquaintanceships Last Line: And ate up a canal! 3 First Line: How new %to know the sky Last Line: America after europe: %100,000 buffalo %900,000 indians 30TH YEAR DREAM First Line: I dreamed a man unknown to me in a city no ACTIVE NIGHT First Line: A tarsier bewrays the end of an epical rain Last Line: And up comes a manatee with a sea-anemone %on its nose AH... WELL First Line: People...Nobody loves them Last Line: The apothecarian earth blooms the poppy %at best ALCHEMY First Line: A blue bird Last Line: Alights upon a yellow chair %spring is here AMERICA POLITICA HISTORIA, IN SPONTANEITY First Line: O this political air so heavy with the bells Last Line: Mast to wind? Shore to sea? Death to life? %the last president AMERICAN WAY: 1 First Line: I am a great american Last Line: But I am afriad to return to america %I'm even afraid to go into the american express Subject(s): United States AMERICAN WAY: 2 First Line: They are frankenstien christ in america Last Line: Tuesday wednesday thrursday friday saturday %and sunday campaigns AMERICAN WAY: 3 First Line: It is a time in which no man is extremely wonderous Last Line: America to be as proud and victorious as st. %michael on the neck of the fallen lucifer AMNESIA IN MEMPHIS First Line: Who am I, flat beneath the shades of isis Last Line: Fall unto the jackal's plate Subject(s): Amnesia; Memphis, Tennessee APPLES First Line: In this lovely lonely orchard Last Line: Has me reach for that out of reach one %and quite make it ARMY First Line: Thrice I've see the two-gunned ghost of patton Last Line: Holy be to patton he gives hills to death! %army!Army! Army!Army! BERLIN ZOO: 1 First Line: O the great slaughter of kangaroos Last Line: Saying I never are meat %when I've eaten herds BERLIN ZOO: 2 First Line: The berlin zoo %has two pay entrances Last Line: They both join at the gater %and stream toward the monkeys BIRTHPLACE REVISITED Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dark light in the dark street Subject(s): Memory BIRTHPLACE REVISITED First Line: I stand in the dark light in the dark street Last Line: Aims a knife at me %I pump him full of lost watches Subject(s): Memory BOTTICELLI'S 'SPRING' First Line: No sign of spring! Last Line: Ah, botticelli opens the door of his studio Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings And Painters BUT I DO NOT NEED KINDNESS Poem Text First Line: I have known the strange nurses of kindness Subject(s): Kindness BUT I DO NOT NEED KINDNESS First Line: I have known the strange nurses of kindness Last Line: Can I say people, sitting in parks, are kinder? Subject(s): Kindness CAMBRIDGE, FIRST IMPRESSIONS First Line: It is not easy to walk Last Line: To sneak out a back door Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts CLOWN: 1 First Line: Laughter dies long after jest Last Line: Bella, the memory of the heart %yet the face is a joker smiling no joke CLOWN: 10 First Line: But %I am an always clown Last Line: Will never leave my organic pyx %thank god CLOWN: 2 First Line: Like the jester who blew out candles Last Line: Yetall I do is walk up and down hands behind back %dreaming dungeons spikes and squeaking racks CLOWN: 3 First Line: And why do they say be a man, not a clown? Last Line: Mr. Death has the hero by the balls! %I can commemorate black laughter, too! CLOWN: 4 First Line: I still don't know if the clown should die Last Line: The clocked tower's scythed crime %bodes sorrow and the life of a man equal time CLOWN: 5 First Line: Proud boastful buffoon! At full your fancies Last Line: You'll get to god %and ease his dreadful tightrope CLOWN: 6 First Line: The punches of winter knocked out a herd of deer Last Line: My joy could never wedge free %from sorrow's old crack CLOWN: 7 First Line: To the unicorn cling, failing Last Line: Clown! %homeless clown in serious! CLOWN: 8 First Line: Of course the unicorn will be killed Last Line: Explosively haw-haws out of jams; %no, nor is it the tricker in whose hand the rope ends CLOWN: 9 First Line: The comedy gone mad! Last Line: Fifty shrouded clowns pile out %from a tiny tomb COLUMBIA U POESY READING-1975: POEM First Line: Summoned by the muse Last Line: Was singing: 'true! True!' %'not so!' rang the spirit, 'not so!' COLUMBIA U POESY READING-1975: PROLOGUE First Line: What a 16 years it's been Last Line: Without spilling a drop of blood %blessed be revolutionaries of the spirit! COMMISSION UNFULFILLED First Line: Field marshall hawks is finally happy Last Line: Where the nose that smelled the foe? %wherethe mouth that gave the command? CONEY ISLAND First Line: Not so laughable this ocean that touches this fun-ruled shore Last Line: That made this ocean decide this shore CRIME First Line: Into a burning animal his crime Last Line: And their faces fell away D. SCARLATTI First Line: Scarlatti counts his breath with a nasty suicide wound Last Line: Ears open for an old echo DANGER First Line: Because of me narcotics are Last Line: My property is sorrow! %no fence %no warning there DEAR GIRL First Line: With people conformed Last Line: And indicates a new light %who'll take care of the cats? DEAR VILLON First Line: Villon, how brotherly our similarities Last Line: I claim to know all there is to know %because there ain't that much to know DEMENTIA IN AN AFRICAN APARTMENT HOUSE First Line: A bullet-holed lion excited the dying child Last Line: Lion, lion,' she said, 'my mind is not well.' DESTINY First Line: They deliver the edicts of god Last Line: That a messenger-spirit %ever stumbled into darkness DIALOGUE - 2 DOLLMAKERS First Line: Let's not use eyes anymore DIALOGUES FROM CHILDREN'S OBSERVATION WARD First Line: - you don't paint nice. You paint faces on window shades Last Line: - she didn't even say, hello DIFFERENCE OF ZOOS First Line: I went to the hotel broog Last Line: I went to the zoo %and oh thank god the simple elephant Subject(s): Animals DIRECTION SIGN IN LONDON ZOO First Line: Giant panda 5lions Last Line: Humming birds %ladies DOLL POEM First Line: A favorite doll %knows the pain of a child's farewell Last Line: Long mad anvious journey. %soda and fig-newtons will erupt from the mouth DON'T SHOOT THE WARTHOG First Line: A child came to me Last Line: And gnawed the child's bones DOUBT OF LIE First Line: Was humankind told me Last Line: But neitherof us %will believe %your big sad lie DOUBT OF TRUTH First Line: In the muse %there is no rest home Last Line: And saw a chinese man %crying in the sun DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR Poem Text First Line: I dreamed ted williams Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR First Line: I dreamed ted williams Last Line: Hosannah the home run! D sun Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAMED REALIZATION First Line: The carrion-eater's nobility calls back from god Last Line: Crow jackal hyena vulture worm woke to necessity %dipping into death like a soup EARLIEST MEMORY First Line: What's the first thing you remember? Last Line: That from which we're born %abathed in that from which all life came ECCE HOMO First Line: Inside the wounded hands and feet Last Line: Impossible to forget ELEGIAC FEELINGS AMERICAN: 1 First Line: How inseperable you and the america you saw yet was Last Line: It asunder, wholly all and forever, like a wind %out of nowhere into nowhere ELEGIAC FEELINGS AMERICAN: 2 First Line: How so like clark gable hands your hands...' (mexico Last Line: America beyond your last dreamed hill hovers %real ELEGIAC FEELINGS AMERICAN: 3 First Line: How alike our hearts and time and dying, how our america Last Line: The windows are tight, are not for jumping; from %hell none e'er fell ELEGIAC FEELINGS AMERICAN: 4 First Line: In hell angels sing too Last Line: And soon behind thee %there came a-following %the children of flowers EMILY DICKINSON-THE TROUBLE WITH YOU IS First Line: Stop mounting pain %if centuries Last Line: I can't look at a fly with my obvious betterness %and ask why EUROPEAN THOUGHTS 1959 First Line: If there was never a home to go to Last Line: When he has been happy all too happy %in an insufferable place FEELINGS ON GETTING OLDER First Line: When I was young I knew Last Line: With all the comings come %and all the goings have gone FIELD REPORT First Line: Night dies into dawn Last Line: But like holderin sayeth I am closer to god %away from him %stop FIRE REPORT-NO ALARM First Line: And that I did not adhere Last Line: And upon my finger %the ring of poetry FOR First Line: What stinking beady wart Last Line: They were sickly sad %and drugs were a filthy nurse FOR HOMER First Line: There's rust on the old truths Last Line: All's caught what could not be found %all's brought what was left behind Subject(s): Poetry And Poets FOR LISA, 2 First Line: I saw an angel today Last Line: With human smile %and nothing to say FOR MILES Poem Text First Line: Your sound is faultless Last Line: Yet unimaginable score? Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians FOR MIRANDA First Line: My daughter %walks in grace Last Line: To his visor'd mouth %there are white horses in manhattan Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters FRAGMENT FROM THE DECADENCE First Line: Fortunato giappinelli spat upon the rampart of servius Last Line: And there the furious giappinelli family awaited him FRIEND First Line: Friends be kept %friends be gained Last Line: Without friends life would be different not miserable d does one need a friend in heaven FROM ANOTHER ROOM First Line: Dumb genuis blows Last Line: Through the crack! Through the crack! %my feast was in the easy blood that flowed GALACTIC BIRTH First Line: The de-opiated body Last Line: Circa 1080 a.D. %slowly develop in a polariod sky GAME First Line: Man devil mandrill Last Line: May the better man win GETTING TO THE POEM First Line: I have lived by the grace of jews and girls Last Line: I will live %and never know my death GIANT TURTLE First Line: You rise from the sea an agony of sea Last Line: You cease your slow %dawn %and you plop in the sea like a big rock GOD IS A MASTURBATER First Line: Folks, sex has never been Last Line: Thank god there's a place %in all this he and she %and he and he %and she and she %for a me and me GREENWICH VILLAGE SUICIDE First Line: Arms outstretched %hands flat against the windowsides Last Line: And a storekeeper throws hot water on the sidewalk GUIDE FOR MY INFANT SON First Line: Simple perfection %perfect simplicity Last Line: It's easy %like painting a flower %of %snapping it dead HAIR First Line: My beautiful hair is dead Last Line: Veronica lake truman capote ishka bibble messiahs paganinis %bohemians hawaiians poodles HALLOWEEN First Line: Children and many strangely things Last Line: And in a little dark corner %trembles the entire room HAPPENING ON A GERMAN TRAIN First Line: Fram a fast-moving train window Last Line: A white american jet fighter plane %crashboom and billows orange HELLO First Line: It is disastrous to be a wounded deer Last Line: In the great serenade of things, %am I the most cancelled passage? HI First Line: There is no god Last Line: Surely there can be no god %when gregorys are called gregs HORSE WAS MILKED First Line: In a room a spoon upon the fire Last Line: Deep in the night he rolled and groaned. %o never was a poor soul so stoned HOW HAPPY I USED TO BE Last Line: Children, have you not heard of my meeting %with isreal hans, isreal hans HOW NOT TO DIE First Line: Around people %if I feel I'm gonna die Last Line: When I feel I'm going to die %so far it's worked I AM 25 First Line: With a love a madness for shelley Last Line: And steal their poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets I GAVE AWAY First Line: I gave away the sky Last Line: All you gave is ours! We made it all, even the likes of you!' %and so I gave the gods away I HELD A SHELLEY MANUSCRIPT First Line: My hands did numb to beauty Last Line: And I, as though tipping a pitcher of milk, %pour secrecy upon the dying page Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) I MET THIS GUY WHO DIED First Line: We caroused %did the bars Last Line: O gregory' he moaned %'you brought up something to die' Subject(s): Poetry And Poets I MISS MY DEAR CATS First Line: My water-colored hands are catless now Last Line: My sad life of cats hangs IN MY BEAUTIFUL...AND THINGS First Line: All beautiful things Last Line: With nylons and sticks of tea and no things IN PRAISE OF NEANDERTHAL MAN First Line: In a birth old and horrendous Last Line: Throught the world %he was philosoph supreme IN THE EARLY MORNING First Line: In the early morning beside the runaway hand-in-pocket Last Line: He is waiting flat against the trees IN THE FLEETING HAND OF TIME First Line: On the steps of the bright madhouse Last Line: And leads me into conditional life IN THE MORGUE First Line: I remember seeing their pictures in the papers Last Line: Here they were young and clean shaven and well-shaped IN THE TUNNEL-BONE OF CAMBRIDGE First Line: In spite of voices Last Line: A black ahead a black and nothing more INNER & OUTER RHYME First Line: Last night was the nightest Last Line: Sure as snow beneath snow is whitesr %shall the god surface the human face INTO THE APERTURE OF AN UNLIKELY ARCHIMAGE First Line: On coming past a thing of hand Last Line: The thing you hold most and now sleep ITALIAN EXTRAVAGANZA First Line: Mrs. Lombardi's month-old son is dead Last Line: And ten black cadillacs to haul it in Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals KING CROW First Line: Old crow is king crow Last Line: Is gold in old crow's land LAST GANGSTER First Line: Waiting by the window Last Line: ...Guns rusting in their arthritic hands Subject(s): Crime And Criminals LAST NIGHT I DROVE A CAR Last Line: I stopped at hedgeville %and slept in the back seat %excited about my new life LAST WARMTH OF ARNOLD First Line: Arnold, warm with god Last Line: When he fell and died beneath the brooklyn bridge LEAKY LIFEBOAT BOYS First Line: Waiting for the world Last Line: Wondering how the planet as well %can get out alive LINES WRITTEN NOV. 22, 23 - 1963 IN DISCORD First Line: So what's it like being an american assassin this silly uncertain day? Last Line: And though the crew weeps the loss %the stars in the skies %are still boss Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) LOVE OF TWO SEASONS First Line: When once in wildhood times Last Line: I've a snow owl %and it loves you it loves you' LOVE POEM FOR THREE FOR KAYE & ME First Line: I'll dress you %in anything anytime anywhere Last Line: The continuum %by thy behest %I bequeathed MAD YAK First Line: I am watching them churn the last milk Last Line: And that beautiful tail! %how many shoelaces will they make of that! Subject(s): Animals; Yaks MAN First Line: The good scope of him is history, old and ironic Last Line: King agamemnon! Mortal man! %ah, immortality MAN SEATED OUTSIDE MY WINDOW First Line: Time on a garden's wintry quietness Last Line: Your finger marking your thoughts upon a stone MANY HAVE FALLEN First Line: In 1958 I took to prophecy Last Line: Until two decades later %when the dead finally died MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good? Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARRIAGE First Line: Should I get married? Should I be good? Last Line: So I wait bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage MEXICAN IMPRESSIONS First Line: Through a moving window Last Line: They have ordinary %american cows Subject(s): Mexico MORTAL INFLICTION First Line: I think of polyphemus bellowing his lowly woe Last Line: And how wise was he %who blinded a thing of immortality? MY HANDS ARE A CITY First Line: My hands are a city, a lyre Last Line: While my hands burn NEVERMORE BALTIMORE First Line: O blessed dowser of lustration Last Line: You would-be!' screeched she %'at least he knew a wicca from a wicce!' NEW YORK CITY - 1935 First Line: I was 5 years old %it was new york december %horses pulling wagons Last Line: And it's driver %head bowed %walking slowly %like the sad italian peasant %he was Subject(s): Accidents; New York City; Poetry And Poets NEW YORK MAN First Line: He's come to cambridge Last Line: Afraid to knock NO WORD First Line: It is better man a word elongate Last Line: His eyes speak and listen as well as see NOTED FOR HAVING HARD HEADS (TESTA DURA) First Line: Halcyon stupidities %flock my brain Last Line: To the girl clouds %making babies %of rain NOTES AFTER BLACKING OUT First Line: Lady of the legless world I have Last Line: Nothing sits on nothing of many nothings %a nothing king ODE TO COIT TOWER First Line: O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring height Last Line: Sprinting toward the gauzy eradication of swindleresque ink Subject(s): San Francisco ODE TO OLD ENGLAND & ITS LANGUAGE First Line: To express what's seen, what's heard, imagined Last Line: And ladies in tight bodices fasten their mantles %with wrought butterflies OF ONE MONTH'S READING OF ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS First Line: Ah, pierced is october; the to tocsin tolls Last Line: The girl scouts are near %the girl scouts are near OLD MAN SAID HE ONCE SAW EMILY DICKINSON First Line: Unhappy face - tight rich white face Last Line: That is, nothing that I could see ON CHESSMAN'S CRIME First Line: Be abnormal sex a crime? Last Line: Sew up your cunts! %and be done with these walking products of crime ON PONT NEUF First Line: I leave paradise behind me Last Line: Beneath one of france's famous men's horses %do I focus myself ON THE WALLS OF A DULL FURNISHED ROOM First Line: I hang old photos of my childhood girls Last Line: The golden hair of susan ONE DAY First Line: One day while peter-panning the sky Last Line: For solitude refuses to lower a gentle hand %upon his long sad face PARANOIA IN CRETE First Line: Damned minoan crevices, that I clog them up! Last Line: One more crevice to, and lo! %I forfeit the echinadian isles PARIS First Line: Childcity, aprilcity Last Line: Dollhouse of mama war PASTORAL FETISH First Line: Old mac donald wears clod-hoppers Last Line: It's the old bastard's greatest kick POET TALKING TO HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR First Line: Hi, I'm me %it has become glaringly absurd Last Line: No way, gregory, stay %close to the poem!!! POETS HITCHHIKING ON THE HIGHWAY Poem Text First Line: Of course I tried to tell him Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Poetry & Poets POETS HITCHHIKING ON THE HIGHWAY First Line: Of course I tried to tell him Last Line: We ended by melting away, %hating the air Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Poetry And Poets POWER First Line: We are the imitation of power Last Line: That drops my woe andall woe to the floor %like a shot spy PROXIMITY First Line: A star %is as far %as the eye Last Line: Can see %and %as near %as my eye %is to me PUMA IN CHAPULTEPEC ZOO First Line: Long smooth slow swift soft cat Last Line: In the puerto rican section Subject(s): Pumas RACE OF SOUND First Line: Sounds are running a race the trek the climb the swim Last Line: The crowds are going wild! Yelling and kicking and jumping %so wild they win the race REFLECTION First Line: Instinctive seers who abandon this lovely age Last Line: Life a universal deathrow %such seers deem it so REMBRANDT - SELF PORTRAIT First Line: When I draw the magnificent dutch girl Last Line: Get me gold linen!Cold jewels! %let me lightdrench the saddest of men Subject(s): Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669) REQUIEM FOR 'BIRD' PARKER, MUSICIAN First Line: This prophecy came by mail Last Line: First and second and third voices %yeah, yeah Subject(s): Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) RUNAWAY GIRL First Line: Ever since running away from home Last Line: Yet she cannot turn around SACRE-COEUR CAFE First Line: The fierce girls in the sacre-coeur cafe Last Line: And the algerins %they don't go to the sacre-coeur cafe SAUSAGES First Line: I ate sausages with you at the feast Last Line: The butcher counted his daughter's feet! SAVING QUALITY First Line: Bad nights of drunk Last Line: Ducks and gulls below %assuring myself: %day or night %you're all right SEA CHANTY First Line: My mother hates the sea Last Line: - thy mother's feet - was its answer Subject(s): Mothers; Sea SEASPIN First Line: To drown to be slow hair Last Line: To stay to pin my hair %on the sea-horse's stirrup SECOND NIGHT IN N.Y.C. AFTER 3 YEARS First Line: I was happy I was bubbly drunk Last Line: No no no no!' he said %and hurried away SEED JOURNEY First Line: There they go %and where they stop Last Line: For some seeds %bread is the end of the journey SHAKEDOWN First Line: I spun another man's prayer Last Line: And the mouth knelt down to drink my terrible flow SHE DOESN'T KNOW HE THINKS HE'S GOD First Line: He is god %jim blaze is god Last Line: Pounds her fists against the wall %'jim the baby will die!' SNIPER'S LAMENT First Line: Hear beautiful %hear through me still Last Line: And it still bleeds SOME GREEK WRITINGS First Line: In a way %the greeks today Last Line: Beneath the starriest sky I ever saw %we all did wonderously pee SONG First Line: Oh, dear! Oh, me! Oh, my! Last Line: When I take her to the slaughter! %why? Why? Why? SPIRIT Last Line: Unafraid %of becoming %the sea SPONTANEOUS REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN INDIAN First Line: Wakonda! Talako! Deathonic turkey gobbling in the soft Last Line: Down the wide amber speedway of death, little richard, %tubamirum, the vast black jacket brays in th Subject(s): Native Americans ST. LUKES, SERVICE FOR THOMAS First Line: The white horse innkeeper Last Line: And strode back to his inn Subject(s): Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) ST. TROPEZ, EARLY MORNING First Line: How all night long I waited Last Line: Towards heaven we're going %towards heaven I'm told STARS First Line: Central the hole of creation Last Line: Uncreatures of space leap out %vivid fossils embeddedin the night SUN First Line: Sun hypnotic! Holy ball protracted long and sure! Firey Last Line: O constant hole where all beyond is true byzantium SUNRISE First Line: I am rich %I've used my blood Last Line: And divined a message theron %I bring it to you %in cupped hands SUNSET First Line: At the gate %of the wood Last Line: In her long hand %humming a sura %falls the sun %slowly %like %a %shot circle THE MAD YAK Poem Text First Line: I am watching them churn the last milk Subject(s): Animals; Yaks THEY First Line: They, that unnamed 'they' Last Line: Nothing moves a mountain but itself %they, I've long ago named them me THIS IS AMERICA First Line: This is america and I'm fun in it Last Line: And a fourteen year old wife THIS WAS MY MEAL First Line: In the peas I saw upside down letters of monk Last Line: I wanted to drop fire-engines from my mouth! %but in ran the moonlight and grabbed the prunes THOUGHTS ON A JAPANESE MOVIE First Line: Let us love a thing together once Last Line: I want to run vermilion through your hair THREE: 1 First Line: The streetsinger is sick Last Line: Crouched in the doorway, holding his heart. %one less song in the noisy night THREE: 2 First Line: Outside the wall %the aged gardener plants his shears Last Line: A new young man %has come to snip the hedge THREE: 3 First Line: Death weeps because death is human Last Line: Spending all day in a movie when a child dies TO A DOWNFALLEN ROSE First Line: When I laid aside the verses of mimnermus Last Line: The hateful law of the earth and sun, and the screaming rose between TRANSFORMATION & ESCAPE: 1 First Line: I reached heaven and it was syrupy Last Line: Gasping in the confectionery of his gentility %I wept, caressing my intimidated legs TRANSFORMATION & ESCAPE: 2 First Line: They caught me. %they took my legs away Last Line: And I swear that great territory did quake %when I fell, free UCCELLO First Line: They will never die on that battlefield Last Line: Lance never to die but to be endless a golden prince of pictorial war UNDER PEYOTE First Line: The flower that bounces sneaking through a Last Line: The difference of minutes %for %summer %children %target %bacteriae VERMEER First Line: See him stand beside a tiny gate Last Line: While lonely men with heavy knives slice bread %and older wives in secret feel their silk VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE First Line: Within a delicate grey ruin Last Line: Drunk with child VISION EPIZOOTICS First Line: I see upon my bed Last Line: Nothing, I want nothing.' VISION OF ROTTERDAM First Line: September 1957 summoned by my vision-agent Last Line: The scheme of a new rotterdam humming in the vacancy WATERCHEW! First Line: He climbs the stair WHAT THE CHILD SEES First Line: The child sees %the foolishness of age Last Line: And suffers the proximity %of the nullified moment WHEN A BOY Last Line: And in summer camp %I kissed the moon %in a barrel of rain WHEN WE ALL First Line: When we all wake up again Last Line: I too am crashing %crashing %ah, spring will %bring a smoot h landing WHOLE MESS ALMOST First Line: I ran up six flights of stairs Last Line: All I could do with humor was to say: %'out the window with the window!' WINDOW First Line: I say unto you Last Line: And it's them, tell you, you gotta die; %be seeing you on the rebound WISDOM First Line: I feel there is an inherent ignorance in me Last Line: A nose clogged with blood %mixed with the odor of an old man's belongings WRECK OF THE NORDLING First Line: One night fifty men swam away from god Last Line: Came up with fifty souls %and pointed towards eternity WRIT ON THE EVE OF MY 32ND BIRTHDAY First Line: I am 32 years old Last Line: Or my behavior toward society, %but it does tell me my soul has a shadow Subject(s): Aging WRIT ON THE STEPS OF PUERTO RICAN HARLEM First Line: There's a truth limits man Last Line: Man is not god %life is a century %death an instant WRIT WHEN I FOUND OUT HIS WAS AN UNMARKED GRAVE First Line: Children children don't you know Last Line: Though graves be many %he hasn't any YOU CAME LAST SEASON First Line: You came and made penny candies with your thumbs Last Line: You stained something awful YOU, WHOSE MOTHER'S LOVER WAS GRASS First Line: You, whose mother's lover was grass in the greenest season Last Line: His jealousy makes bastards of us all YOUTHFUL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES First Line: When I was five Last Line: I cannot totally comprehend %what it all meant if it meant anything at all ZIZI'S LAMENT First Line: I am in love with the laughing sickness Last Line: Who it would do the most good, %will I ever get it? |
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