A Lonely Wet
Today the autumn rain was a loveley wet. Falling. Falling. Falling. And painting the house of my soul sad. Today the autumn rain made the old people seem very, very old.
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Somebody Comes to This Place
It is an old story. Somebody comes to this place and grows up in the shadows of buildings and stars and other somebodies. Somebody learns to love: to know intimately the houses of the spirit and the flest. Somebody learns to hate and kill and scream and curse like hell.…
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Cats
I love cats. Why do we love cats? I don't know exactly, but I think it is for the same reason that I love the dawn, and the sunrise, and the coming down of rain.
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Tom's Soul
All Tom's soul, a frightened, lonely, sad thing, ever wanted was love. It only wanted a woman to take it in her arms, and hug it, and kiss it, and caress it, until all memories of darkness were gone, and it knew on hugging, and kissing, and caressing, until it knew only love.…
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Love Is
Love is a hungry lion eating a deer. Love is a white lamb standing in a soft spring rain and eating baby grass. Love is a god-damn poet witing "Love is ..." and knowing all the time that love is and there isn't much that he can say about it that hasn't benn said before by…
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Always the Geese
Today geese haunted the grey of the October sky with their V and their eternal voices. What can I say that the geese didn't say as they flew in skies far away from the places where they were born and grew up?
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The Death of Time
Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it.
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White Tiger and Enchanted Cave
I am a white tiger made out of peppermint. There s an enchanted cave in your body that I must enter, so that chills will travel in new buses up and down our spines as we stare at out very own baby.
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Don't Be Afraid of Death
When you are old and about to be eaten by a coffin. don't be afraid of death. Naa.
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To Wooer
I will woo you carefully as somebody (big) planning to cheat somebody (small.) I will woo you so carefully that you will get so impatient that you will start to woo me. If that doesn't work, I'll try somethin else.
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Phantom Kiss
There is no worse hell than to remember vividely a kiss that never occurred.
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A Memory of Life Will Be Frozen in My Eyes
The heads of white chickens lie in the mud and rain. A memory of life is frozen in their eyes. I wonder what their last thought was as their heads were chopped off.
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All The Cities At Once
Pretend is a city bigger than New York, bigger than all the cities at once.
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God, Have Mercy on This Young Lover
When I am kissing you, I can look down on all things that are wonderful. Destroy him instantly.)
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Gay: Tra-la-la
Flowers on the mountain. ("My God, they're beautiful. It's days like this make you glad to be alive, Joe." "Yeah, Al."). Summer if just a day, but so is death. Gay: tra-la-la.
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Maggots Eating My Brain
The maggots will eat the brains that felt and wondered and wrote these poems. Let the maggots have their fun. They only live once.
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Against Conformity and Averageism
I hate, because they are evil as habitual hanger in a child's stomach, people who try to change man the hunter for truth into a castrated cow grazing in the peace of mental death.
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Breathe on Me
One of thousands of cheap rented rooms. One of thousands of tire, lonely people. She watches the rain write autumn on the window. After a few years she says, "God, please breathe on me."…
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Let's Walk Downtown Together
I'll take your hand, which reminds me of a cat I used to know, and we'll start out walking. I'll talk to you about things and I'll make you laugh like a little kid. I'll point out things for you to look at. Maybe I'll stop and kiss you right out in front of everybody.…
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Fly Caught in a Spider's Web
I knew a man who was dying of cancer. He had the patience of a fly caught in a spider's web. When he died he asked. "What time is it?"
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