Nodding at the canyon
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The taste
—Why kneel?
Sweet sad young tenor
Bearded full of junkSlouches waitingFor Apocalypse,Listens to the newNegro raw trumpet kidTell him the wooden news;And the beat of the bassThe bass—drives inDrummer drops a bombPiano tinkle tacklesSweet tenor liftingAll American sorrowsRaises mouthpiece to mouthAnd blows to fingerThe iron sounds
Describe fires in riverbottom
the cooking of hot dogsspitted in whittled sticksover flames of woodfirewith grease dropping in smoketo brown and blackenthe salty hotdogs,and the wine,and the work on the railroad.$275,000,000,000.00 in debtsays the GovernmentTwo hundred and seventy five billiondollars in debtLike UnendingHeavenAnd Unnumbered Sentient BeingsWho will be admitted –Not-Numberable –To the new Pair of ShoesOf White Guru FleeceO…
I keep falling in love
I dont want to hurt her-Of all people to hurt.Every time I see hershe’s grown olderBut her uniform alwaysamazes meFor its Dutch simplicityAnd the Doll she is,The doll-like wayshe standsBowlegged in my dreams,Waiting to serve me.And I am only an ApacheSmoking HashiIn old CabashyBy the Lamp.
Tears is the break of my brow,
Sitting downIn dark railyardsWhen to see my mother’s faceRecalling from the waking visionI wept to understandThe trap mortalityAnd personal blood of earthWhich saw me in—Father fatherWhy hast thou forsaken me?Mortality & unpleasureRoam this city—Unhappiness my middle nameI want to be saved,-Sunk—can’t beWon’t beNever was made—So retch!
Birds singing
—Rainy dawn.