#AmericanWriters
Seems like a long time Since the waiter took my order. Grimy little luncheonette, The snow falling outside. Seems like it has grown darker
And the one that’s got it in for y… Mister, that keeps taunting you In an old man’s morning wheeze Every time you so much as glance a… Or blurt something in your defense…
The brightly-painted horse Had a boy’s face, And four small wheels Under his feet, Plus a long string
The one who had been whispering All along in this empty theater And whose voice I just heard— Or imagined I did Distracted as I was by my own tho…
As an ant is powerless Against a raised boot, And only has an instant To have a bright idea or two. The black boot so polished,
Of the light in my room: Its mood swings, Dark-morning glooms, Summer ecstasies. Spider on the wall,
With only his dim lantern To tell him where he is And every time a mountain Of fresh corpses to load up Take them to the other side
There was a melon fresh from the g… So ripe the knife slurped As it cut it into six slices. The children were going back to sc… Their mother, passing out paper pl…
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I… in the white? Walt Whitman One
Boss of all bosses of the universe… Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, w… And whatever else you’re good at. Go ahead, shuffle your zeros tonig… Dip in ink the comets’ tails.
The mail truck goes down the coast Carrying a single letter. At the end of a long pier The bored seagull lifts a leg now… And forgets to put it down.
Millions were dead; everybody was… I stayed in my room. The Presiden… Spoke of war as of a magic love po… My eyes were opened in astonishmen… In a mirror my face appeared to me
You must come to them sideways In rooms webbed in shadow, Sneak a view of their emptiness Without them catching A glimpse of you in return.
O crows circling over my head and… I admit to being, at times, Suddenly, and without the slightes… Exceedingly happy. On a morning otherwise sunless,
On the first page of my dreambook It’s always evening In an occupied country. Hour before the curfew. A small provincial city.