Shasta Daisy
I pray that in thirty-two years passing that flowers and vegetables will water the Twenty-First Cent- ury with their voices telling that they were once a book turned by loving hands into life.
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California Native Flowers
In this spring of 1968 with the last third of the Twentieth Century traveling like a dream toward its end, it is the time to plant books, to pass them into the ground, so that flowers and vegetables may grow from these pages.
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Boo, Forever
Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
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The Garlic Meat Lady from
We're cooking dinner tonight. I'm making a kind of Stonehenge stroganoff. Marcia is helping me. You already know the legend of her beauty. I've asked her to rub garlic on the meat. She takes each piece of meat like a lover and rubs it gently with garlic.…
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The Harbor
Torn apart by the storms of love and put back together by the calms of love, I lie here in a harbor that does not know where your body ends and my body begins. Fish swim between our ribs and sea gulls cry like mirrors to our blood.
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The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead
The day they busted the Grateful Dead rain stormed against San Francisco like hot swampy scissors cutting Justice into the evil clothes that alligators wear.…
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Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain
Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A…
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The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster
When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside of you.
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I Cannot Answer You Tonight in Small Portions
I cannot answer you tonight in small portions. Torn apart by stormy love's gate, I float like a phantom facedown in a well where the cold dark water reflects vague half-built stars and trades all our affection, touching, sleeping…
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Automatic Anthole
Driven by hunger, I had another forced bachelor dinner tonight. I had a lot of trouble making up my mind whether to eat Chinese food or have a hamburger. God, I hate eating dinner alone. It's like being dead.
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Mating Saliva
A girl in a green mini- skirt, not very pretty, walks down the street. A businessman stops, turns to stare at her ass that looks like a moldy refrigerator. There are now 200,000,000 people in America.
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Linear Farewell, Nonlinear Farewell
When he went out the door, he said he wasn't coming back, but he came back, the son- ofabitch, and now I'm pregnant, and he won't get off his ass.
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Indirect Popcorn
What a good time fancy! like a leisure white interior with long yellow curtains. I'll take it to sleep with me tonight and hope that my dreams are built toward beautiful blonde women eating indirect popcorn.
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I Live in the Twentieth Century
For Marcia I live in the Twentieth Century and you lie here beside me. You were unhappy when you fell asleep. There was nothing I could do about it. I felt helpless. Your face is so beautiful that I cannot stop to describe it, and there's nothing…
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Crab Cigar
I was watching a lot of crabs eating in the tide pools of the Pacific a few days ago. When I say a lot: I mean hundreds of crabs. They eat like cigars.
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Poker Star
It's a star that looks like a poker game above the mountains of eastern Oregon. There are three men playing. They are all sheepherders. One of them has two pair, the others have nothing.
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I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't
I feel horrible. She doesn't love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.
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A Candlelion Poem
For Michael Turn a candle inside out and you've got the smallest portion of a lion standing there at the edge of the shadows.
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Alas, Measured Perfectly
Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:20 P.M. is the name of a photograph of two old women in a front yard, beside a white house. One of the women is sitting in a chair with a dog in her lap. The other woman is looking at some flowers. Perhaps the women are…
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Haiku Ambulance
A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what?
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