#Americans
Nothing is plumb, level, or square… the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch, and bent nails
I live inside of a machine or machines. Every time one goes off another starts. Why don’t I go outside and sleep on the ground. It is because
“If you work a body of water and a… you can take fish out of one and c… for the two kinds of survival. The… both kinds are adequate in pleasur… but the hard work and the miseries…
I know but will not tell you, Aunt Irene, why there are soap suds in the whiskey: Uncle Robert had to have A drink while shaving.
This is the time of night at the d… when the manager is balancing a nearly empty ketchup bottle upside-down on a nearly full ketch… and spreading his hands slowly awa…
In order to perfect all readers the statements should he carved on rock walls, on cave walls, and on the sides of pillars so the charm of their instruction can
He had a back office in his older… advertising agency and understood… He turned his father’s small inher… on hemorrhoid ads between three-ho… at the Plaza every day and cocktai…
1. ON ASPHALT: NO G… Quarry out the stone of land, cobble the beach, wall surf, name it “street,” allow no ground or green
Because of the unaccountable spiri… oh we were marched as we were neve… and flanked them off from home. St… was after them, head on to tail, b… him, finally, to flank, flank, cut…
Once, one of my students read a bo… She was doing a history assignment… the decline and fall of the Roman… and crying. When I asked her why she said Because. All those peopl…
For old Billy Dugan, shot in the… The old wound in my ass has opened up again, but I am past the prodigies of youth’s campaigns, and weep
The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream,
What is better than leaving a bar in the middle of the afternoon besides staying in it or not having gone into it in the first p… because you had a decent woman to…
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional war in As… when some academic son of a bitch,
After your first poetry reading I shook hands with you and got a hard-on. Thank you. We know that old trees can not feel a thing