the late autumn,
I saw a hawk
crucified on a
barbed-wire fence.
I guess as a kind
of advertisement
to other hawks,
saying from the pages
of a leading women’s
magazine,
“She’s beautiful,
but burn all the maps
to your body.
I’m not here
of my own choosing.”
It’s been raining like hell all day longand there’s nothing to do.
Dear Trout Fishing in America:I met your friend Fritz in Washington Square. He told meto tell you that his case went to a jury and that he was acquit-ted by the jury.He said that it was important for me to say that his casewent to a jury and that he was acquitted by the jury,said…
The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph takenlate in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklinstatue in San Francisco’s Washington Square.Born 1706–Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on apedestal that looks like a house containing stone furniture.He holds some papers in one hand and his hat in the other.Then the statue speaks,…
as I thinkof you?
in his evil forest.We took himto the carnivaland he startedcryingwhen he sawthe Ferris wheel.Electricgreen and red tearsflowed downhis furry cheeks.He lookedlike a boatout on the darkwater.
that she can’t getbecause she’s not15% prettier
