#Americans
The trees in time have something else to do besides their treeing. What is it. I’m a starving to death man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
The skin ripples over my body like… rearing to escape me. Where could… animal as naked as the one it hate… Once it told me what was happening… who was attacking, who caressing,…
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,
1. ON ASPHALT: NO G… Quarry out the stone of land, cobble the beach, wall surf, name it “street,” allow no ground or green
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
“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…
Who knows whether the sea heals or… The wading, wintered pack-beasts o… slough off, in spring, the dead ri… leather detention, the big toe’s y… shines with a natural polish, and…
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
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
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…
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…
My mother never heard of Freud and she decided as a little girl that she would call her husband Di… no matter what his first name was and did. He called her Ditty. The…
Speciously individual like a solid piece of spit floating in a cuspidor I dream of free bravery but am a social being.
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…
The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream,
