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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: wieners, john Matches Found: 400 Wieners, John Poet's Biography 400 poems available by this author 1930 JAZZ First Line: Rocked me in my cradle, while papa was in Last Line: Swing it, brother swing 238 CAMBRIDGE STREET: AN OCASIONAL VERSE First Line: We're back on the scene Last Line: Waiting in the night for a fix 2ND COMMUNIQUE FOR THE HEADS First Line: I love my fellow poets Last Line: Who is a fellow poet. Traveller 30-DEC First Line: Iam %sitting up by candlelight Last Line: From stars one strung by the shine A POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS Poem Text First Line: Well we can go Last Line: I burn in the memory of love Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians A POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS Poem Text First Line: I walk down a long / passageway Last Line: Shriek in their ears Subject(s): Museums; Art Gallerys A POEM FOR PAINTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Our age bereft of nobility Subject(s): Paintings & Painters A POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS Poem Text First Line: The scene changes Last Line: All over town Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography A POEM FOR THE OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: God love you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POEM FOR TRAPPED THINGS Poem Text First Line: This morning with a blue flame burning Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POEM FOR VIPERS Poem Text First Line: I sit in lees. At 11:40 pm with Last Line: Under the coats of their tongue Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse ABOUT HIMSELF, THE AUTHOR WRITES ACCEPTANCE First Line: Should I wear a shadowed eye ACT #2 Poem Text First Line: I took love home with me Last Line: The night moan yr. Name Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Gays & Lesbians ACT #2 First Line: I took love home with me Last Line: Oh johnny. Women in %the night moan yr. Name Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Homosexuality ACTS OF YOUTH First Line: And with great fear I inhabit the middle of the night Last Line: Worshipped in the pitches of the night Subject(s): Youth ADRIFT A MONTH First Line: If I had a canoe ADULT, TO HIS INSPIRATION First Line: Thank you for showing me your insides, johnny Last Line: Regulate hydraeduct in range beneath chelsea memorial hosp AFTER A POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS Poem Text First Line: I have never stopped loving him Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Unrequited; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AFTER BYRON'S MAID OF ATHENS First Line: Have you ever thought of me AFTER DINNER ON PICKNEY STREET First Line: You can't tell me there isn't power - or the threat of power - by the' AFTER READING SECOND AVENUE First Line: As a jar of tibetian snow, you melted AFTER SYMONDS' VENICE First Line: Boston, sooty in memory, alive with a AFTER THE ORGASM Poem Text First Line: Aw, what is fame, is it Last Line: Only to find it's some worthless punk who ends up in your arms Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians AFTER THE ORGASM First Line: Aw, what is fame, is it Last Line: Only to find it's some worthless punk who ends up on your arms Subject(s): Homosexuality AFTER YOU GO IN THE DARK ROOM First Line: I know what you're using me for Last Line: Well,...The moon comes up AILSA'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Poem Text First Line: Gas. A marriage that never existed, a death under investigation Subject(s): Capitalism AILSA'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT First Line: Gas. A marriage that never existed, a death under investigation ALCOHOL DOESN'T EASE THE PAIN NOR ALIDA'S ARTISTS IN CRIME First Line: When violets appear wild, wet and fresh ALLY First Line: My father's black ashtray Last Line: To fill the sad stuffed cigarettes %of philip morrris, ltd ANATOMY WORKED OVER, First Line: Worked over, as a long thin line of paltriness before my own very %thine eyes Last Line: Iroquois impersonated but expelled away due cargo ANCIENT BLUE STAR! First Line: Seen out the car Last Line: For answer to dust AND WHAT IS NOTHINGNESS Last Line: In the silence. %is it junk ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH First Line: He too must with me wash his body, though Last Line: Sun shines and larks break forth from winter branches APPARITION First Line: I feel his hands upon me AS PREFACE TO TRANSMUTATIONS First Line: How long ago steve, it was Last Line: All our notes AT BIG SUR First Line: Lizard under the stone AT THE CARNIVAL First Line: Marriage is a joke; is a laugh Last Line: Obscenity or become a perpetual bar-fly? AU NATUREL First Line: An handsome man has to think a certain way AU RIVE First Line: What kind of poem would one write if one could? AUDIENCE OF ONE First Line: At last we have all arrived Last Line: One with change, one with hermes AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, SELS. BEQUEST First Line: I see her sleeping in the chair BERKELEY ST BRIDGE First Line: Petrified the wood Last Line: This world's got nothing for me BET' First Line: If love be dark, a confusion in the mind Last Line: Love is kind BIDING IN THE GLOOM First Line: My new work which I presume BILLIE First Line: He was as a god BLIND SEE ONLY THIS WORLD (A CHRISTMAS CARD) First Line: Today the lamb of god arrives in the mail BOOK AND THE LAMP First Line: The book, homolibre basalt Last Line: Funnys sine columban vatican lisa prelude BRANDY First Line: It is not candy BROKEN HEARTED MEMORIES Poem Text First Line: And when that music starts Subject(s): Memory BROKEN HEARTED MEMORIES First Line: And when that music starts BY THE BARS First Line: Oh, now, my own poor, good mother, do not make me ill now BY THE FIVE DOLLAR BILL First Line: Oh bo-bo CAGE First Line: Silence, as a tomb CARNEGIE First Line: When nine foreign bodies ply CASKET BEFORE DARK? First Line: Bulbous oasis bent loose verse for tomorrow CASUAL LOVE First Line: Casual, gives to her, joy CAVIAR TEARS First Line: No one to dine with CHARITY BALLS First Line: I had a fellowship, but lived poorly Last Line: But I knew if I worked hard I'd eventually make it CHARLES MANSON DEATH CULT First Line: From topeka to cambridge CHARLES' DEATH First Line: The hotel orchestra began at seven CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS Poem Text First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Subject(s): Children; Labor & Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals; Childhood; Work; Workers; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASS First Line: Gaunt, ugly deformed Last Line: God's goodness, but his better or less scorn Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Psychiatric Hospitals CHINOISERIE First Line: Birds of paradise float in green lagoons COCAINE Poem Text First Line: For I have seen love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin COCAINE First Line: For I have seen love CONCENTRATION First Line: I'd half-expect CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: T is friday night, a lone bird hollers Subject(s): Conduct Of Life CONFESSION First Line: It is friday night, a lone bird hollers CONSOLATION First Line: Waiting at the window CONTRADICTING PICASSO Poem Text First Line: The mansion deceives itself Last Line: Down as we do in our baths, to fool away the night Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) CONTRADICTING PICASSO First Line: The mansion deceives itself Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) COSMETICS First Line: Beauty is the most mysterious and subtle art of them all CUT First Line: Only an hour to write this Last Line: Not a woman past, unloved, not one eye filled %was addressed DARK BREW First Line: At least these wounds were opened DAWN COCKTAIL First Line: We lie in a pool of blood DEAD POETS OF QUEER POEMS Poem Text First Line: Commencement exercises inhibited Subject(s): Social Commentaries DECEMBER EPIPHANY First Line: Upon a star-light night DENIAL First Line: A light-hearted air DEPRIVATION First Line: Roses, lilacs and rains DESPERATION First Line: In what mad pursuit, or competition DETERMINATION First Line: Poetry is some way DOES HIS VOICE SOUND SME ECHO IN YOUR HEART Poem Text First Line: A quart of champagne, one pill too many Subject(s): Life Choices DOES HIS VOICE SOUND SOME ECHO IN YOUR HEART First Line: A quart of champagne, one pill to many DOGGEREL First Line: Alone in an afternoon's Last Line: They do not last, nor shall this one DOLL First Line: How many loves had I Last Line: None, none, none at all DOPE First Line: I am old no longer, youth is returned to me Last Line: Baby, I bet it's swinging. In the noon-day, sun DORMANT LAMONT First Line: Life's enough to accomplish its motives DOT First Line: My divorced aunt's DRINKIN LONELY WINE First Line: When you're used to taxicabs DRUG FANTASY First Line: International homosexual %playboys Last Line: Make chance departures, timed to offend your audience EAGLE BAR First Line: A lamp lit in the corner Last Line: Bottles off the bar Subject(s): Homosexuality EGG NOG Poem Text First Line: The quality of mercy Subject(s): Mercy EILA First Line: A pure spirit Last Line: Ensconced with cheap suppers ESPIONAGE First Line: I sit in the evening, not on it EVOCATION TO TOMMY DORSEY First Line: Sound of sycamores Last Line: Where agony, also is real FACE OF A POOR WOMAN First Line: I have the face of a poor woman FACE OF AN ANGRY MAN First Line: For the second time this afternoon FAME, GREAT TRAVEL, SPEED, BEAUTY - YOUTH FEBRUARY First Line: Textual exercises are examples to FEMININE SOLILOQUY First Line: If my dreams were lost in time FIFTEEN MINUTES IN A CHEAP HOTEL First Line: We enjoy poverty more than wealth Last Line: How dumb can you get, with a full set of teeth? FINDING THE KEY TO DOUBLE INDEMNITY First Line: Starring it's just as much FIRST POEM AFTER SILENCE SINCE THANKSGIVING First Line: Out in the world again, after the cloister FOR A BRIGHTER SUN First Line: Isn't it manly to protest our society FOR A COVER OF ART NEWS First Line: Are you still among the living? Last Line: Weight %of young lips FOR ED DORN First Line: A crumbling ruin, on top of beacon hill FOR HUNCKE First Line: Know no other god than this Last Line: Until dawn when you come no more FOR JUDITH EVELYN, POST-THEATRE! First Line: Budget 1 token FOR MARION First Line: I have found her snow white in my head FOR MY BOSS WITHOUT AN OFFICE First Line: When she doesn't say anything, when she don't talk FOR THE GALLERIES First Line: The smell of apples from a back closet FOR THE MIND OF 38 GROVE STREET 3RD FRONT First Line: Against the light Last Line: I will be able to leave by morning FORTHCOMING First Line: I died in loneliness FORTITUDE First Line: When I opened the window Last Line: I but welcome sleep's kiss FOUNTAINHEAD First Line: To see the lights come on in los angels, where Last Line: Wondrous exclamities in the direction of a post'moderne middle %class' FUGITIVE First Line: Foul wretch upon an ill earth Last Line: Enough for such unneccessary offers FUTURE First Line: Without death, resurrection only regeneration Last Line: Evening, beside the bennies, the cotton's, the hypo's kiss GARBOS AND DIETRICHS First Line: Moving like a dream through ibiza Last Line: To those men they turn into swine Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality GARDENIAS First Line: Blue songs of the poetess' heart GAY WORLD HAS CHANGED First Line: Climbing up the saw-dust stairs Last Line: Nothing more; sex, sex, sex, and sex Subject(s): Homosexuality GLIMPSE First Line: There is a knot in the middle of my head GOD IS THE ORGAN OF NOVELTY' First Line: In negligences resulting out of poverty Last Line: A gallery courtyard harassed through invention GOOD-TIME CHARLEY'S GOT THE BLUES First Line: A cold winter alone in bed GOODBYE Poem Text First Line: Perhaps some day you shall find me Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOODBYE First Line: Perhaps some day you shall find me GREY SABATH First Line: After dropping $500 at the racetrack Last Line: Nursing daily buds GROWN OUT OF HABIT First Line: Benzedrine diners Last Line: Going nowhere HARDNESS PROMPTS LITERATURE, UNSPOKEN TERMS HART CRANE, HARRY CROSBY...' First Line: Hart crane, harry crosby, I see you going over the edge Last Line: This is what made you jump HE AIN'T FOR REAL First Line: Did you ever HE'S NOT HERE NO ONE'S THERE Poem Text First Line: M shaking from another man HEAD SHOP First Line: What I feel in confusion HELEN GO MOTHER BETH Poem Text First Line: I was young once; and on poverty Subject(s): Life Choices HERE FOR THE NIGHT First Line: At 7 dollars for a single room's rest, and Last Line: Remaining three decades of my life Subject(s): Homosexuality HIGH NOON First Line: 15 years of loving HOME SURGERY AT MERCHANT MARINE First Line: To get your degree, in lavender Last Line: Jordan & those all-night discs HOME-DUTY First Line: What is boston to me HONESTY First Line: Asylums: yes, those gray dull planes Subject(s): Honesty HOW DARE YOU? First Line: These winter clothes HOW PERFECT, HOW QUINTESSENTIAL! First Line: On first gazing at this spic and span living room HOW TO COPE WITH THIS? Poem Text First Line: A mean, dark man Last Line: And only scope Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians HOW TO COPE WITH THIS? First Line: A mean, dark man Last Line: In the dark, my hope %and only scope Subject(s): Homosexuality HUMILIATION First Line: From so many men, their torment - HUNGER First Line: I keep waiting for him all my life Last Line: From single greed and selfishness HYPNAGOGIC First Line: By banks of the neponset river Last Line: Who sail on foamy rapids I CAN'T PUT MY HEAD ON THE PILLOW I DESPAIR OF LOVE Last Line: To ride upon %out to sea I HOPE IT GOES ON First Line: A blinding rain storm behind the beacon chambers I WALK UNDER THE DISTANT STARS I'M First Line: Pretending with him I'M ATTRACTED TO YOU, FORGETTING I'VE LIVED HERE LONGER THAN ANYBODY ELSE AND I KNOW WHERE EVERYTHING First Line: Just think, also I've lived here Last Line: Now is to becomme a woman, for all of them, an empress upon %your eastern shore IDYLL First Line: I stay in bed and wait for you II ALONE First Line: Sustained by poetry, fed anew IMPASSE First Line: Is it enough my feet blackend IMPERATRICE First Line: Who sits supreme above all human ecstasy IN ONE'S MIND First Line: Touring an embassy IN PUBLIC First Line: Promise you won't forget IN THE BEGINNING First Line: The early morning wake-up, melancholia at someone else's radio %blaring Last Line: Hoping ungathered future strength results about lost green %handicaps IN THE DARKNESS First Line: It's a mistake to assume love IN THE HALF LIGHT OF HOLDING, FR. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK INDIGNATION First Line: It doesn't matter if one lives or dies INOPERABLE First Line: A chair of frustrated ambition INSULTED First Line: I never rewarded, never cared INVITATION First Line: To offer all IT WAS YOURS First Line: I'm a bigtime baby now Last Line: And close, to know this %suppose JE OUBLI First Line: Was it last night, or a lifetime before JIMMY First Line: I suppose that's how I was born Last Line: I suppose that's how I %was born JIVE First Line: Tomorrow some motel with a guy Last Line: Blows in the wind JOSEPHA, UPON THE DAMASCUS JOY First Line: Burst in on us: a rare blossom Last Line: Hollow letters of gold JUST AN ORDINARY JOE First Line: With plain face and wrinkled forehead JUSTICE First Line: Wouldn't you think there was something KEEP IT First Line: Your mind's path KEYHOLER First Line: My dear, do you mind if I strike a flint upon your Last Line: Second-hand readies to wear KING SOLOMON'S MAGNETIC QUIZ First Line: And when I went to the woods KLUGWERTH First Line: She is a figure of real beauty that walks with majesty LADY MACBETH DEGENERATES LARDERS First Line: Oh, the night beckens so LAST ENGLISH SOLDIER'S WASHINGTON SUPPER THAIS First Line: 1953 - professional artists insist that yearbooks LE DICTATORIAL CIRCLE First Line: After you've met demetrios LET THE HEART'S PAIN SLACK OFF LIGHTS IN TOWN First Line: Not as bad as you are LITERARY REMINISCENCE CONTINUED PART 2 First Line: And the thought that a great love LONELINESS First Line: It is so sad Last Line: Stinking beneath my clothes LONG NOOK Poem Text First Line: There she took her lover to sea Last Line: And like stars fell on alabama Subject(s): Seashore; Love LONG NOOK First Line: There she took her lover to sea LOOKING FOR WOMEN First Line: To serve me cookies and lemonade LORDSHIP First Line: When you see that, it's what you see about me LOSS First Line: To live without the one you love Last Line: Away from you LOST POEMS ARE LIKE OLD FRIENDS, AMORE LOUISA ADAMS First Line: Earlier anticipating straight narrative LOUISE First Line: The wind is a guitar in the house tonight LOVE-LIFE First Line: Chains are a terrible thing to wear LUCHOW CHOC-AU-LAIT First Line: Yes, there are memories, memories of churches whose MA'S DECK CHAIRS First Line: Just that permission MAINE First Line: At last destroyed someone MARIA GOUVERNEUR First Line: Attic coiffure admonitioner MAY First Line: There are certain poems I wrote Last Line: And never on paper may be had MELANCHOLY First Line: Across the deep and brine MEMOIRS OF A CAD First Line: Sitting in this chair, reminiscing back over twenty MEMORIES OF GERRIT First Line: The maiden's prayer haunts this aftenoon, without you, the day is Last Line: Sax fifth avenue clothes but that was another man MEMORIES OF YOU First Line: Blown the fags in central park Last Line: Saintly motorcyclists in the dawn MENU First Line: Cranberry steak MERMAID'S SONG First Line: If thou in me the full flush of love see MOIRA First Line: Who lights a kerosene lamp in her bungalow Last Line: A mistinguett in london's soho snow MONDAY SUNRISE First Line: Red glow over china Last Line: Of yellow girls MONEY IS NOT MONOGAMOUS First Line: A poor man cannot make use of himself Last Line: He recognizes none of these fears, not their predicted fact MORGANA LA FAY First Line: The return of MOTHER SOUNDS THE KEY First Line: It's what you do, not what you know MR. BAILEY First Line: Cosmetics makes a woman's despair use - MUSIC First Line: What is poetry? An image MY DARLING FATHER AND SON First Line: Boy, who raised me, from hollywood to Last Line: Joe southern; joe boarder priest MY FIRST MIDNIGHT 49TH BIRTHDAY SUPPER First Line: As snakes curl up the rose MY MOTHER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Last Line: Talking together between the wire grates of a cage Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mothers NAKED First Line: An old man and a woman NECROMANCY Poem Text First Line: The queen can grant no mercy, no clemency Subject(s): Necromancy NECROMANCY First Line: The queen can grant no mercy, no clemency Subject(s): Necromancy NEW BEACHES First Line: Poverty has nearly ripped my life off Last Line: Within poetry's mouth NEW FORM First Line: To try and contemplate time and age unfathomable NIAGARA FALLS First Line: Hannibal loves to the priests who schooled for language aids NIGHT IS COLD, FR. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK NIGHT SAMBA First Line: My mother sleeps in her bed Last Line: Getz, you pestilence NIGHT, THAT LAST MONTH OF THE LAST' Last Line: And collapsed, dying in pa's NO GODS, MOTHER, BOYS, BEAUTY First Line: It's too easy, begs description Last Line: And we were not commanded by gods, too NO LOVING SON First Line: Stretch his brains on the rack NO POISON OUT OF PENURY First Line: Am I mad for the god that no man rules? NOT THIS AGONY OF LOVE, WITHOUT BEING LOVED NOVEMBER 7, RE-ENTRY NUDES First Line: The glimmer of sunlight Last Line: When two people meet, or three, or four as some record of will ODE ON A COMMON FOUNTAIN First Line: Since winter froze your flowing summer sound OLD MAN First Line: All about the sexual urge strikes in the night ON A FATS NAVARO RECORD First Line: Under a neon light Last Line: Past midnight tune of isolate requisite? ON THE BACK TO THE COVER OF THE ALGERIA POEMS First Line: This loneliness more than I may bear ON THE FIRST PAGE First Line: Out my window Last Line: Appropriate me from the living ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS APPEARING AS THE COVER ON First Line: Oh my prince, my heaven Last Line: Underground lie the beautys of men, %to their praise OSTERREICH First Line: The man I'm kissing OUTSIDE THE PRESIDENT'S PALACE First Line: For ten years sorley, nijinsky PALTRY FREEDOM First Line: Let freedom sing Last Line: Subtle linked in one art PARKING LOT First Line: Don't give nothing for nothing Last Line: That is what I want to be PARTY THAT NO ONE CAME TO Last Line: Ah, an entry we laugh to remember PATIO First Line: I created eternity PATRICIANS First Line: The race belongs to the strong PAUL First Line: It's nice under your hands Last Line: Will not be on your other side PAUL II First Line: The faces of children PENNIES FOR THE FAIR AT WORKS First Line: Foreign polish posters playing half-dollar jerks PERMANENT First Line: All beauty dies, past Last Line: Its reason clear by contrast PEST First Line: I live in a flop Last Line: Populates disbarred midnight PEYOTE POEM' First Line: With no fresh air in my lungs Last Line: With pkgs. Of paradise in their pockets %their hands PHYSICAL WANTING First Line: To sara PIAZZA First Line: Throw keys down PIERCED WITH A MINIATURE ELECTRIC TRACK PLANE, TRAIN, CAR, BUS, OR BOAT First Line: Along the coast, seabreeze Last Line: Perfume drifts two decades in azure as tristan of isolde PLYMOUTH: A TEST ON CORPSES First Line: On the bus, riding back POEM FOR #238 First Line: Again camp is set up Last Line: Line the walls of our flesh POEM FOR BENZEDRINE First Line: Voices of the underworld rise stoned to bring me down POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS First Line: Well we can go Last Line: I burn in the memory of love Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM FOR EARLY RISERS First Line: I'm infused with the day POEM FOR MOVIE GOERS First Line: I sit in the late evening POEM FOR MUSEUM GOERS First Line: I walk down a long %passageway Last Line: And streaming in %flames Subject(s): Museums POEM FOR PAINTERS First Line: Our age bereft of nobility Last Line: Only to draw back from the %blood already running there Subject(s): Paintings And Painters POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS First Line: The scene changes Subject(s): Sound Recordings POEM FOR THE DEAD I KNOW First Line: Gather the voices, forces I have forgotten POEM FOR THE INSANE First Line: The 2nd afternoon I come %back to the women of munch Last Line: And tingel-tangel %in the afternoon POEM FOR THE OLD MAN First Line: God love you POEM FOR TRAPPED THINGS First Line: This morning with a blue flame burning Last Line: With my hand over my mouth Subject(s): Homosexuality POEM FOR VIPERS First Line: I sit in lees. At 11:40 pm with Last Line: Under the coats of their tongue Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse POETRY AND THE SOCIAL First Line: Summer days are really over. Bleak winds Last Line: Fire in words, 'brown weeds everywhere...' POOL HALL First Line: In an abandoned toilet Last Line: And an empty cup for cigarettes, %of water POOL OF LIGHT First Line: A shimmering fern leaf, two upraised emblems of gold PRIME DUTY First Line: Living on beacon hill, fervently over twenty years PRIME TIME First Line: I've got well again; no more these aches and pains Last Line: In testament to your votive shrines PRIVATE ESTATE First Line: Dancing dandelions PULL First Line: Oh, holy most blessed Last Line: Kremilin neighbors, inhabiting burns %imitatio christi QUEER First Line: Do I have to accept this READING IN BED First Line: By evening light, at the window, where wind blows REALIZATION First Line: Where has that old spark gone REFRAIN First Line: My pillow a rock of stone REMOVED PLACE First Line: When the echo falls RETIAL First Line: Going down to the financial area, for ten years ROSE AT THE END OF THE SALOON First Line: I saw flowers when I thought of you Last Line: Weeping on the couch RUBBISH First Line: Writing is an act of repulsion SAN FRANCISCO, 1958 First Line: And always these tropical songs call me Last Line: Above the border, %of the song SCANDAL First Line: I've never been able to think love out SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH First Line: I was on the toilet when I first learned SEQUEL TO A POEM FOR PAINTERS First Line: Abutting solidity apart SERIES First Line: Rain today and rain in the self. Reign. Return SEXUAL FACTS ARE TIRING, TOO First Line: Ignorance, seduction Last Line: Hearing the drums start in the early afternoon SHALL IDLENESS RING THEN YOUR EYES LIKE THE PEST? First Line: Beware that breed of men who would eat SICKNESS First Line: I know now I heard you speak in the night Last Line: Do not tamper with the message there SIGNS OF THE PRESIDENT MACHINE First Line: I've got 25 cent coin on the bureau SILVER RINGS First Line: It seems as eternity SOIL FAD First Line: A small miniature of the georgian period, quietly SOLITAIRE First Line: Never stole nothing Last Line: Air kinder than girl's %residence SOLITARY PLEASURE First Line: I wanted a companion, even a lover SOME BLACK MAN LOOMS IN MY LIFE...' First Line: Some black man looms in my life, larger than life Last Line: Some dead man dies in my arms every night SOME MEN SEEK SILENCE FOR THEIR COMPANY SONG First Line: I had a room in buffalo Last Line: Though my room's memories follow SONNET JEANNETTE First Line: Foyer; where the press interviews given SPOILED SON First Line: I have built a world for myself STATIONARY First Line: I'm thinking of last evening, the feelings had STEVE MAGELLANSTRAITS First Line: Black magician of the night Last Line: The currents of the inky storm %to come STONE GIRL Poem Text First Line: A simple poem Subject(s): Poetry & Poems; Love STOP WATCH First Line: The sensation STRANGE Poem Text First Line: Strange with women when Last Line: On the mouth again Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Women; Human Behavior STRANGE First Line: Strange with women when STROLL First Line: There are no men SUCK First Line: This morning SUISSE First Line: Mountain'd nature is also an enemy SUNDAY TIMES MEARA IN ATTIRE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX First Line: Before monday's disgorge of morning trousers SUNSET First Line: Already my spirit soars into the west SUPPLICATION Poem Text First Line: O poetry, visit this house often, Subject(s): Life Choices SUPPLICATION First Line: O poetry, visit this house often SURETE First Line: Every hour SUSTENANCE First Line: Your letters and my answer TAKE FOR GRANTEDS First Line: Past duchamp as though his mother were sainted Last Line: Indigenous wounds off ancient coins TASHI First Line: Put my brassiere between my legs THE ACTS OF YOUTH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And with great fear I inhabit the middle of the night Last Line: Worshipped in the pitches of the night Subject(s): Youth THE EAGLE BAR Poem Text First Line: A lamp lit in the corner Last Line: Bottles off the bar Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians THE GARBOS AND DIETRICHS Poem Text First Line: Moving like a dream through ibiza Last Line: To those men they turn into swine Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians THE LIGHTS IN TOWN Poem Text First Line: Not as bad as you are Subject(s): Time; Poetry & Poets THE MEADOW WHERE ALL THINGS GROW ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN DESIGN Poem Text First Line: Destiny lies behind our forces Subject(s): Fate; Destiny THE MURDER OF CHEAP WAITRESSES Poem Text First Line: From ellen needham, indicted for their slaying Subject(s): Murder; Waiters & Waitresses THE SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: Yes I put her away. Subject(s): Suicide; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: Delaunay wrote on / the back of his simultaneous windows Last Line: Bowl of fruit full of light Subject(s): Windows; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets THEN SWING TO TOPSY, A COOL BASS THERE ARE HOLY ORDERS IN LIFE THERE ARE SO MANY FATHERLESS CHILDREN AROUND First Line: I never could stand you too long ...' THREE TO GO WITH PICTURES, SELS. TIME First Line: June, then september - life dredges past Last Line: This is the only eternity: what exists in the word TIMES SQUARE Poem Text First Line: A furtive queen Last Line: At dawn Subject(s): Times Square, New York TIMES SQUARE First Line: A furtive queen Subject(s): Times Square, New York TO BILLIE HOLIDAY'S IF I WERE YOU First Line: Did I swing in downtown bistros TO CAROL BERGE First Line: Training one's self to adversity is impossible; you're either TO CHARLES OLSON First Line: Who are these beasts Last Line: The morning shines in on me TO CHARLES ON HIS HOME Poem Text First Line: Death is an unforgiven Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO D First Line: Forgotten what I once loved Last Line: In crushes' obedient trust TO DENISE LEVERTOV First Line: Is it really you come to me Last Line: When I pick up a pen to write, gone completely TO ED BUDOWSKI First Line: My mother looked better TO FRIEDA First Line: Poppy works you right TO H First Line: I like sunday evenings after you're here Last Line: I will write this poem TO LABOR, POWER AND ENERGIZED DEVOTION First Line: M'sieu paul; %how I'd love to be with you and think of you, watching you on Last Line: Valley ranch. Sanctity, support and the simple treatment class %charge stamps TO MY MOTHER First Line: I get drunk when she's home TO NELL EVANS First Line: Returning to buffalo, via cordless phone TO PETTY CASH First Line: What then, that's when TO RANDY, MY VALET First Line: Approaching the mid-century TO SINK LOVE First Line: Are you up late this evening TO SLEEP ALONE TO THE BAD DEBTS IN THE UNITED STATES DEPTS First Line: You took two years of my life away from me, locking me behind TO THOSE OF BORN DIVINE First Line: I see each day as a miraculous present Last Line: At my necessity to love where fire burnt, also TODAY WE HAD A WONDERFUL DAY TOP TEN 5TH COLUMN First Line: English mystery spies TOURS First Line: The middle-aged loves belie TRIMETERS First Line: Your lips in a cloud TWO BARBARIANS TWO MEN First Line: As a popular song on the phonograph, by laura nyro Last Line: Casual love affairs, concealed from his wife TWO YEARS LATER Poem Text First Line: The hollow eyes of shock remain Subject(s): Time UNDERSTOOD DISBELIEF IN PAGANISM, LIES AND HERESY First Line: Prick any literary dichotomy UNHIRED First Line: You can't do him UNTITLED First Line: My sister has saved her body for years Last Line: Where only skin is passed out on the street UNWAKING First Line: To have loved a phantom VIVA First Line: Drag them out of their places Last Line: As enormous tumours out from the poverty of their lusts VOCE First Line: Art, classical spontaneity Last Line: Her maker, master, mentor survives successor VULTURE First Line: I have nothing, no one, can't you see that WANING OF THE HARVEST MOON First Line: No flowers now to wear at Last Line: Words gone from my mouth %speechless in the tide WASTE First Line: Poetry a noble art, it Last Line: But of its richer part %know none WE HAVE A FLAME WITHIN US I TOLD CHARLES WE WOULD BE TWO MEN First Line: After eleven years Last Line: No one able to compete with his necessity WEDNESDAY OR SOMETHING Poem Text First Line: I might even listen Last Line: Tuesday's rebellion Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians WEDNESDAY OR SOMETHING First Line: I might even listen Last Line: Double-crossed, %tuesday's rebellion Subject(s): Homosexuality WEIR First Line: Scollay square Last Line: There those mannered streets of despair WELFARE AGENCY ADOPTION First Line: 1959. Fall asleep troupe WHAT A POET IS FOR... First Line: It's a dangerous racket Last Line: Don't admit to it. %reign WHAT ARE YOU SAYING First Line: I am one of those tainted, corrupted ones WHAT DO I CARE FOR TIME First Line: The grave's now not such a lovely place WHAT HAPPENED IN THE WOODS AT ROCKINGHAM COUNTY First Line: We loved under the tops of long grass Last Line: We were in, %(love) %naked WHAT HAPPENED? First Line: Better than a closet martinet Last Line: Better not lock it %up again WHAT I IMAGINE TO BE MY LOVE WHISPERS IN THE CORNER First Line: Those who stay at home Last Line: Fast limousines more demanding assignments on my energy WHERE FLED First Line: Despair long given me Last Line: To shine through blood and clouds WHITE RUM AND LIMES First Line: Bulgarian lilies, trans Last Line: Talk of farouk and millia gluck WHITE SLAVERY First Line: I don't know anything about being a man, or a woman WINDOWS First Line: Delaunay wrote on WINDOWS OF WALTHAM First Line: Sol, bronze age came first sol WITH MEANING First Line: Rise, shining martyrs Last Line: Rise and salvage our century WITHERED ON THE STEM First Line: Supplicant against the system Last Line: To no avail stud WOMAN First Line: It is a simple song WOW First Line: I wanted to write a thanks- %giving poem about Last Line: Where I will udress %her in my dreams WRAPPED UP IN AN INDAIN BLANKET First Line: With the mist miles out on the pacific ocean WRITING UNTIL DARK, EITHER AT THE AFTERNOON ... WW First Line: A freshness in the dusk YES, YOUTH ARE MARCHING ON AGAINST THE WORLD YONNIE First Line: Beneath the ivory lady Last Line: When I write 'assez.' YOU DO NOT COME First Line: I am nervous tonight. Your absence is a Last Line: Now forever taken away YOU TALK OF GOING BUT DON'T EVEN HAVE A SUITCASE Poem Text First Line: I will be an old man sometime Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Memory YOUTH Poem Text First Line: The first darkness / on blue hill ave Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians YOUTH First Line: The first darkness %on blue hill ave Last Line: Before big charles put his hand on me, and ordained me a priest Subject(s): Homosexuality |
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