(1959)
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The hollow eyes of shock remain Electric sockets burnt out in the skull. The beauty of men never disappears But drives a blue car through the
The quality of mercy is not strained It lieth along the center road It falleth from the nude sky as gentle earth rained
I sit in Lees. At 11:40 PM with Jimmy the pusher. He teaches me Ju Ju. Hot on the table before us shrimp foo yong, rice and mushroom chow yuke. Up the street under the…
Perhaps some day you shall find me… as I blow smoke out my mouth While you walk the riverbank in the rain on Sunday evening. Looking for jazz, hearing love’s b…
The scene changes Five hours later and I come into a room where a clock ticks. I find a pillow to
I’m shaking from another man but remembering beating you on Sunday evening, a pal of solitude as Veruschka before Adolph Hitler’s lawyers did
And when that music starts there is no time, she takes you ba… over fifteen years, as if yesterda… a song immortalized. Do you know h… I met her once, with my lover: “…
God love you Dana my lover lost in the horde on this Friday night, 500 men are moving up
Our age bereft of nobility How can our faces show it? I look for love. My lips stand out dry and cracked with want
Death is an unforgiven That’s what we have in common language an act of sharing words. Coming tears will do it Where there’s smoke
A quart of champagne, one pill too… and a paper from the state saying… Was it the pills or champagne no simply some orange roses in a glas… on the bureau to transport myth fr…
to Somes from incarceration, Taunton State… gaunt, ugly deformed broken from the womb, and horribly… at the labor of their forefathers,…
I was young once; and on poverty another palace revolution without… Taking the day the field to wards surrender of material posses…
Yes I put her away. But now life flares up As safe as China in a cup You hear the droppings of her heart.
Not as bad as you are And the next time that I see you I shall be old, a figure Couched from under acquaducts Where you still remain abroad a si…