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the mockingbird his wife, the painter on the sidewalk and in the sun the elephants of Vietnam dark night poem the last days of the suicide kid tabby cat metamorphosis a poem is a city a smile to remember a free 25-page booklet they, all of them, know a future congressman eulogy the drowning fooling Marie (the poem) the young man on the bus stop bench for they had things to say harbor freeway south schoolyards of forever in the lobby sex something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you … blue beads and bones like a cherry seed in the throat turnabout the girl outside the supermarket it is not much 2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen The Japanese Wife the harder you try the lady in red the shower i was glad the angel who pushed his wheelchair a time to remember the wrong way no wonder a threat to my immortality my telephone Carson McCullers Mongolian coasts shining in light putrefaction where was Jane? something about a woman Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission trashcan lives school days grass crucifix in a deathhand the screw-game millionaires when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away the talkers art advice for some young man in the year 2064 a.d. ice for the eagles girl in a miniskirt reading the Bible outside my window hell is a lonely place the girls and the birds 1813–1883 no leaders, please song one for Sherwood Anderson bow wow love the day the epileptic spoke when Hugo Wolf went mad— in a neighborhood of murder the strangest sight you ever did see— the 2nd novel junk Mademoiselle from Armentières now society should realize … the souls of dead animals the tragedy of the leaves the loner The Genius of the Crowd German bar the snow of Italy for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough: notice for Jane eulogy to a hell of a dame was Li Po wrong? the night I saw George Raft in Vegas I am eaten by butterflies the veryest man mowing the lawn across the way from me oh, yes Phillipe’s 1950 downtown elephants in the zoo girl on the escalator the shit shits big time loser come on in! the bakers of 1935 secret laughter an empire of coins what? the American Flag Shirt now she’s free gold in your eye a great writer the smoking car the shoelace self-inflicted wounds Verdi the young lady who lives in Canoga Park life of the king my failure a boy and his dog liberated woman and liberated man the crunch funhouse the poetry reading somebody the colored birds poem for personnel managers: my fate my atomic stockpile Bruckner (2) hello, how are you? vacancy batting slump bang bang the pleasures of the damned one more good one the little girls hissed ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha thoughts from a stone bench in Venice scene in a tent outside the cotton fields of Bakersfield: 3:16 and one half … a literary discussion butterflies my friend William safe starve, go mad, or kill yourself the beautiful lady those marvelous lunches The Look: the big one the genius about the PEN conference what a man I was Scarlet like a flower in the rain a killer prayer in bad weather melancholia eat your heart out I made a mistake she comes from somewhere The High-Rise of the New World car wash Van Gogh the railroad yard the girls at the green hotel in other words Destroying Beauty peace afternoons into night we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain marina: Trollius and trellises beagle coffee and babies magical mystery tour the last generation a radio with guts the egg a killer gets ready in the center of the action poetry notes upon the flaxen aspect: the fisherman the 1930s the burning of the dream sit and endure Goldfish finish dreaming my special craving A Love Poem one writer’s funeral the wine of forever the pile-up close encounters of another kind drying out scene from 1940: the area of pause I know you relentless as the tarantula the replacements to lean back into it eating my senior citizen’s dinner at the Sizzler it’s strange The Beast woman on the street lost in San Pedro Manx the history of a tough motherfucker bad fix one for the old boy my cats Death Wants More Death the lisp on being 20 meanwhile the world’s greatest loser the trash men a gold pocket watch talking to my mailbox … I liked him one for the shoeshine man the proud thin dying shot of red-eye about pain hot who in the hell is Tom Jones? the price I’m in love the girls the ladies of summer tonight shoes hug the dark face of a political candidate on a street billboard white dog on going out to get the mail spring swan how is your heart? closing time racetrack parking lot at the end of the day there Dinosauria, we mind and heart TB the orderly the nurses cancer tired in the afterdusk again so now? blue sun coming down twilight musings the bluebird if we take—

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