We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But
We meet. We try. Nothing happens, but afterwards we are always embarrassed when we see each other. We look away.
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They Are Really Having Fun
They are really having fun, drinking glasses of wine and talking about things that they like.
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January 4 3
I've started off with a mistake but I'll try to get better and put the day in good order.
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Autobiography (Goodbye, Ultra Violet)
The telephone rings in San Francisco, "This is Ultra Violet." I don't know her except that she is a movie actress. She wants to talk to me. She has a nice voice. We talk for a while. Then she has to go someplace. "Good-bye."
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Autobiography (When the Moon Shines Like a Dead Garage)
When the moon shines like a dead garage I travel with gasoline ghosts down all those haunted miles of the past, twenty-seven Model A miles an hour in 1939, going to where I have forgotten.
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Autobiography (Polish It Like a Piece of Silver)
I am standing in the cemetery at Byrds, Texas. What did Judy say? "God-forsaken is beautiful, too." A very old man, who has cancer on his face and takes care of the cemetery, is raking a grave in such a manner as to almost (polish it like a piece of silver.…
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Are You the Lamb of Your Own Forgiving?
I mean: Can you forgive yourself / all those crimes without victims?
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Information
Any thought that I have right now isn't worth a shit because I'm totally fucked up.
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Crow Maiden
Starring a beautiful young girl and twenty- three crows. She has blonde hair. The crows are intelligent. The director is obsessed with the budget (too low). The photographer has fallen in love with the girl. She can't stand him. The…
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Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts
Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard. I remember when there were just worms out there and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September nights.
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Two Guys Get Out of a Car
Two guys get out of a car. They stand beside it. They don't know what else to do.
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The Act of: Death-Defying Affection
The act of: death-defying affection insures the constancy of the stars and their place at the beginning of everything.
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It's Time To Train Yourself
It's time to train yourself to sleep alone again and it's so fucking hard.
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Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
Loading mercury with a pitchfork your truck is almost full. The neighbors take a certain pride in you. They stand around watching.
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Postcard
I wonder if eighty-four-year-old Colonel Sanders ever gets tired of travelling all around America talking about fried chicken.
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The Twenty-Eight Cents for My Old Age
I gave a poetry reading at a bar in San Francisco, people sat around and drank beer while I read a poem called Portrait of the Id as Billy the Kid, when the reading was over I got paid twelve and a half dollars, but twenty-eight cents was deducted for my old age,…
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Geometry
A circle comes complete with its own grave.
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A Boat*
O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.
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To England*
There are no postage stamps that send letters back to England three centuries ago, no postage stamps that make letters travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet, and John Donne stands looking out the window, it is just beginning to rain this April morning,…
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A Childhood Spent in Tacoma
If a door were laid on its side, you could be the captain of a submarine.
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