#Americans
I could stare for hours at her, the woman stepping out of her bath, breasts bare, towel around her waist, before I knew she was you
for J.A., December 3, 1975 Ashes that survive the aftermath o… Bury the past bravely, retaining Only those messages that are least… And therefore most desirable
This bed thy center is, these wall… The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful ol… Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye,… That never touch with inarticulate… Those dying generations-at their s…
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when the radio shuts itself off in the middle of
I’m a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two kids, a boy and a girl. Last Sunday I played golf with th…
Did you know that Evian spelled b… I myself was unaware of this fact… when John Ashbery, Marc Cohen, a… gave a poetry reading and I introd… to an audience that already knew t…
The sky was a midnight blue velvet cloth draping a birdcage and no moon but the breeze was whistling and the sound of a car
Remember when Khrushchev said “We will bury you!” on the cover of Time I thought he was
What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go Cedeno singles steals second Mora… they pull off a double steal
The longer I stare the lovelier you look in my eyes (so made such mirrors and spies) and I’m not don… yet as I enumerate the virtues of your smile, gracious in defeat,
What I propose is not Marxism, which is not dead yet in the English department, Not maximalism, which was
Can’t swim; uses credit cards and… intolerable feelings of inadequacy… Won’t admit his dread of boredom,… numerous marital infidelities; Looks fat in jeans, mouths clichés…
He woke up in New York City on V… Speeding. The body in the booth n… Was gone. He had bought her a swe… Said her life wasn’t working he lo… You’re all bent out of shape, accu…
There comes a time when the story… different stories and soon after t… retreats to the cave of a solitary… metropolis where no one remembers… whic is, of course, a sign of its…
The shrink says, “Everything depe… on how many stuffed animals you ha… as a boy,” and my mother tells me… father was left-handed and so is m… and they’re both named Joe whose f…