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L MAGAZINE, VOL 2 NOS. 1-2 (SPRING 1974)
Edited by Curtis Faville
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CONTENTS
Ron Silliman ACTHPAVILIONSPOPEYE
Bill Berkson TEN POEMS
Lewis Warsh NINE POEMS
Aram Saroyan MR. STUMOLA
Barrett Watten from OPERA-WORKS
Robert Creeley NOTE
Robert Grenier PAGES
Clark Coolidge TINY MESSAGES
Bruce Andrews NO 127SONG NO 151
Tom Raworth BEAUTIFUL HABITPERPETUAL MOTIONMR. & MRS. GRIEF
William Corbett AUCTIONDRUNKENNESS
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Ron Silliman
ACTH
Mountains encircle hernow she is enclosed by wallsis located in what was formerlyfew fountainsone for paupers like a crownthree butchers' marketswhich divides herher sobriety to a single simileinfamy as the seatconfines herself her narrow facadesrow houses in the parishhad been carved were largea bed for the episcopalfew fresh housesborn in their place of origin with some degreea curtained bed what trades did they plyapart from the spiralfurriers like the tannersshops and notariesfrom the Rhone bridgewere born in some fragments one disappearedimmigrants connectedwould be less offending thereover the river wasprobably extended backtwo of fourto the late to the gatethree-fifths of broad downtown streetsapothecaries near the conventto bisect a hill a long arc of plainhad built their citadelthe lower city grewheart of the lower cityall of which extended downran the rues as they existedhappen to be citizen-chroniclersto the edge of the lakean open space through which carriages could passrented to artisansfor pedestrians in case of rain windfor the convenience of foreign
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continued in use a different name each blockmen of letters men of justice clerkscrosses suns stars crowns keys towersthree inns called white crossmembers of the small council
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PAVILIONS
gested a modern "set"
cathedral is to an oriental
street consisted of
the populace of melancholy
keys perched on window
faint and muffled
rough and the tub
noise of a bridge
newspapers what we said
officers who accompanied me
shop front
live was to listen
were saved
into groups of twenty
volve like a wheel
harmony with the odor
take an elephant with me
drum upon it
our losses when we won
song was at once
multitude
formed into the tomb of
began on the day
had roused
on whose terrace saline
to an end at last
white ashes
press for receiving me
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nanas
petrol cans and tap messages
type of the hero without
of opium
that I had never seen
where the stuffed birds watched the motionless
and frock coats
walking nation
flowering hawthorns
the dialogue of yells
disown a needle in
reach right down to the water
~\7itter
verberating
in a parcel when he was prefect
merry horses rough hewn
accompanying tanks were enveloped
slits
through my thighs I could hear
the shadow behind her
was thinning the boles
and a massacre
would not be carnival
dazzled by the light
by four others
squawking and fluttering
off his jacket
draped with lianas
licking at the edge of a sheet of paper
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POPEYE
amamaze
ambition
ambush
amend amid
among
anchor
anger
animal
ankle annoy
another
antidote
anvil
any
anyhow anyone
anything
apart
apartment
appeal
appear appease
applaud
apple
apply
appoint
approach approve
apricot
apt
arc
arch
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are area
argue
arm
around
arouse
array arrive
arrow
arsenal
arson
art
artery article
as
as oak
as oar
as oath
as oats as odd
as of
as off
as oh
as oil
as old as on
as one
as once
as once I
as once a
as once o as once
as ooze
as opt
as or
as orb
as ore as ought
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as ounce
as our
as out
is ox
is pace is pack
is pact
is pad
is page
is paid
is pail is pain
is paint
is pair
is pal
is pale
is palm is pan
is pane
is pant
is pansy
is papa
is parachute is parade
is paralysis
is parliament
is particular
is pasteurize
is pedestrian petroleum
philanthropy
phone
fane
fan
fancy farmer
farther
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father
fathom
fast
fat fate
fed
fix
fix fever
fix faulty
fix floral fix flavor
flexi
saxi
oxi
traji
tuli tripp
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Bill Berkson
Daisies droop and die in a blue bottle, a giftfrom the 1940s (as, you know, what isn't – ohyou born exquisite "on the button" in 1939).A strawberry blond half-reclined on the divingBoard – Horse Cave, Kentucky, 1973 – smilesat the sky whose color blue, in broad daylight,is the same almost as the water which reflectsbeneath her. The dry look of her white one-pieceswimsuit, the white trim and green tops of twoumbrellas in full-bloom at poolside, the smileof the big dolphin as he leaps from the deepend to pop a cork, pleased expression of theafternoon sun as it swallows your story whole.
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from PARTS OF THE BODY
A flying antyou must seeto believe.
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Easy tothink ofsome partsof the bodyas beingextra baggage.
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What you do to yourbodyfor love, andof course it getsback at you.
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Beef and milk – & cheese isa part of it.
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Over the Hill
The moon willappeararoundthe next turn.
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Fog inspires staring for long periods.Sun makes moving possible.
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Want to go to townseewhat’s shaking.
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Phenomenology of Perception
Spit on itand seeif a bubbleforms –
that’s theonly wayI know.
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Many a tear has to fall,not worthlessly,clean and clear.
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a
no
put
in
front
of
anything
it'll
insist
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ELECTION DAY FOG
the perfect roundness (halo?)and density of headlightscoming from behindas I walk up hillheading towards a housewhere warmth may freely spreadits muted grace-noteslike pork chopscookingit's been a short dayjust the right numberof decisionstwo“everything elsehas everything else”says the lightof another stripeit looks likethat one is goingup in smokemeanwhilethe past is callingit all comes backmore or less amusinglike the anatomy of melancholya studied lookinto the not-too-distantwinningflame
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Mother's Mother
a photograph ofmy mother's motheraged about 22delicate oval facecocked to one sideher light-colored hairtied back in a kind of bunbright steady eyeson the back she wrote“Your little wife HelenDec. 3 1883“In Summer or Winter weatherHappiness means to be together”then“Married to Clay LambertAug. 9 1883Photo taken Dec. 1883”and then“Your motherWhen she was young – “
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Hotel Lux
for Larry Fagin
heavy trenchcoats
beer and pretzels
and sad, sad music
goodbye Muncih
hello Orient Express
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"We Can Work It Out"
Milktoast Hitler'sventilated velvet glovein the universal hail/flack
* * *
we discuss the negativein myriad interesting waysor else shut up, hold peace, the acein the peat of your pants, belly
fool yourself! tell lies!
the head carefully craftedto my aimsafter a very few years of practice
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Bolinas Butcher's Sign :
MYRIAD MEATS
* * *
the disagreement has a bustedformalityto itpointedleaving it thereat twilight, pleased
* * *
beaming again
but definitely
at home with you
* * *
fluoroscopic attention(look at you)
* * *
the children are busy knowing each other,themselves, on hands and knees.
2/9/73
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Special Touches
A woman who is a woman makes bread.
It rises, full of special touches.
I can touch it later.
old buttermilk sky
going to the big city
bye bye
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For Robert Smithson
shortage
a promissory note
struck
while skidding
can't you feel
those shuffling feet
brain waves
undermining
cliffs of thought
follow up . . .
don't remember
terrific blades
on balls of feet
solar shapeless mass
a mental habit like
a religious pursuit
that grew
they are beautiful, right?
but I am no less alive
1/6/74
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Lewis Warsh
THE GREATEST MOMENT
last summer
Bustins Island
with I.ee
taking the garbage out
in a row boat
into the center of Casco Bay
the boat turns over
when I step into it
garbage & oars go flying
Lee goes flying
night
when I step into it
the boat floats ontop of the water
the garbage disappears if you push it under with the oar
soaked
I stand
Apart listening to the crickets
stillness
the boat is filled with water
we turn it over
that moment & return home
Lee
to his home
change our clothes
sit by the fireside & smoke
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SPARKS
Sparks are flying
from the old machine – into
the new air, clouds
passing over meadows, rain
falling onto the windshield at 5 AM
as we ride through town, hungry
waiting for daylight
so we can open up, & eat
sitting down at a counter
or in a booth while the lady & her
man are still cleaning up
from the night before. "I guess
I'll have eggs,
scrambled, well, with
a side order of potatoes, & coffee,
& she'll have a glass of milk."
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CLIMAX DIS'I'RIBU'I'OR
Blowing bubblesinto space, don't break themlike waves. Blue surfin the other room, a headachefills the townwith laughter, beercans rattling outside Ed’sa man who minds the shelves well, & livesinside the can marked September (last).Who hammers so hard they breakthe town, wind to make the shutters rattle,old town, big game, & tiny headyawn lifting your head from the rimof the lake. Up the lake& ripple, as they glide off the rim,don't blow them outbut watch them burstas they land.
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WITH MY PARENTS
"I've come here to die," the old ladyin the elevator tells meas I go visit my parentsin middle-income cooperative apartmenton 8th Avenue. Togetherwe watch the newsover color televisionwhile the Empire StateBuilding blinksthrough the picture window.I'm in my old room, closetfilled with manuscripts, diariesI kept in highschool, books & magazinesI helped collate & staple.My old bed is just a half-inch longer than I am.
With anewspaperunder myarm Iwalkedthe streets, &when I reachedthe buildingasked the oldman sittingoutside ifhe knew whereI couldlocate the super.
"In there,"he said,pointing toa nearbystorefront.
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SONNET
When you baby-sit for the nightAnd the baby wakes from a napAnd crawls from the cribInto your lap, like a catLeaving tracks on your bookAnd you fling the book against the screamOf wonder and scribble a few lines on the angryPad of friendship that holds your number and yourParents' number tooTo call in case of emergencyBut not beforeThe moment of candor gets out of handAnd the baby lies beside you bursting,And thirsty at the same time . . . .
what to do?
"GIRL STABBED DEAD. . . ."
Girl stabbed dead indoorway on Hudson Street, home for lunch – male
model & wife surprisedfrom sleep
by intruder, one shot, another stabbedin their own apartment, West Village residentspicketing the park
on Sheridan Square& Washington Square Park, too dangerousto walk through, a 7 year old boy found deadon an East Side rooftop, local residentschase suspectto police headquarters, seekrevenge, just like the movies,while innocent suspect, disguised as a copis ushered into waiting car& hustled to freedom, in broken English
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MOVING ON
Each emotional outletnow, take it from the very top
now tell us what you mean by "emotional outlet"I mean:
the big winds from the ocean current, stillness are only words
& when she walks off the words' surfacepsychically, propelling herself forward onto the ruga real person, half blond, half sea serpent
partially herselfberserkwhen she walks off, casual as if her thoughts were only of me
not merely scratching the surface of some imagined mebut knowledgeable about my habits & ways
& what chance has brought me to this point in time a tiny scratch on the planet's surface
When she forgets about the planet & flies off
into another spaceI know about but don't want to think ofit's too empty
then I know what I mean when the words
“emotional outlet” occur to me
& I write them upon this page
Humid night air on my facethe face of a visitor from Russiain the starsa starfish floatingface UP in the waves
Give me your bathing cap& we'll go catch some minnowsunder the moonlightwith our feet danglingover the edge of the pier
Aram Saroyan
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MR. STUMOLA
Mr. Stumola was my gym teacher when I was in the first gradeAt Allen-Stevenson School in Manhattan. I idolized the man,And he seemed to take a fatherly interest in me. In gymClass, once, we were all asked to assume our fighting stance.
I was somewhere in the back in a whole room of boys inLines. They wouldn't get to me for a long time so I couldWork on it, try to figure out the perfect, most impenetrable,Stance. By the time they got to me I had to be unwound, so
Tightly had I contorted myself against the enemy. Later,In Van Courtland Park one afternoon, Mr. Stumola called meOver and asked me who I wanted to fight of my classmates.I wanted to pick one I thought I could beat but not one
Obviously weak. The boy I picked came over and we squaredOff – he hit me in the nose; it bled, and I rushed to theDrinking fountain to clean it, my hand, my face. Mr. StumolaSingled me out among the boys when we were all drilling a week later
On the school roof. "I want to shake hands now with a boyWho got a bloody nose and didn't even cry." Then he saidMy name. I was surprised – it seemed to have happenedSo long ago in my child's-time that the gesture was almost empty.
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Barrett Wattcn
from OPERA WORKS
April 8
OPERA – works – operatic – like works. Operative –machine parts work. "Jet parts rain from the sky” –Chandler's randomness. The inevitable meeting placeof fact and coincidence. Someone 10 feet away isspeaking to me – are you enjoying it (Roussel) trying tokeep up writing while maintaining absurd but friendlyconversation about dogs trained to attack. Big dogswon't attack little dogs, little dogs will attack bigdogs. jet parts rain from the sky. "Writing noteson your reading?" just taking notes – journal. Oh.Explanations – inclusiveness. jet parts rain from thesky. "Word falling – photo falling." Back to the con-versation, nothing else to write. Man laughs randomly,"That's a strange kite – almost like a snake." Feelgradual force in notation – willful and pleasant – ismaking a time that is taking on the qualities of the park."Getting hungry – hope I see you again." Pink and greenof Mission buildings. Flower people, birds peck atsweets. Siphoning off sweet cream. Twilight in Hermo-sillo, Mexico, roseate aura of drugstore – Pharmacia –main street, palms dividing boulevard, Dolores Street,dolorous, dolorosa, while sweet, langorous. Woman takes icebetween her lips. You want the world to take place,without any borders of thought. The widest possibleconception fills it out.
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April 30
THE CLEAR THING
The clear thing is much more in the large aggregate of pulse – of heat –a head of the pleasant pressure – present pleasure's no where to go. Clarityof black smoke kicking at the apartment – black man, white dog – against asharp and jutting sky. A puff let out in blasts quickly closed off. Chokedabout the throat. End of variation of flat white shapes pressing forward.Lozenges face assertion as markers. Sunlight strings of attachment – couldsleep under webbing, sustained by webbing in every move. Seen connectionsof nuance and glimpses of an honest starting forward – start forward here.Seen connections of sunlight. Open a hole into a black SPACE and let ablast of certain light in – light goes to all corners in the room. Bathing inlight's clean soothing pulse. Expose to light for thirty seconds, thirty years,develop. Pages turn in the bright wind. Black print passes across them.Little chunks of choice decided on in advance – nothing new there. WhatNew – known, slept on, kept apart forever. It, the continuous light effecton the premises, has a life of its own. One enters in to its properties, to theentrance of a garden with the trees cut to shape – like fingers, triangles,hats, lozenges. Much better. Principles of growth restrained. On a writingtable in the surrounding substance, were three small ships in bottles,polished and faded by the continuous action of the sun turning over andexposing them on every side. Fingering and turning the thing over – insideis a mechanism which turns by itself. Inside that one is another one whichturns – a gyroscope – principle of balance in ships, keeps them upright onthe wide, clear course. Steaming as they hold steady, 2000 yards in fiveminutes. More than a purpose defined – mutiny at hand, the gyroscopesassume an independent function. Hold the wheel in your hand – waterpasses under the bridge – standing on the bridge with other sailors. Theyare preparing to dock us at an island, where the very young two passengerswill be let off. The boat to come back in 6 months – at this rate of 2000yards in 5 minutes, about 360 miles a day. From here to LA. Back andforth with a cargo of detachable truck bodies, to be unloaded by blackhands. The container cargo boats wait until 9 each morning outside thebay, when a motor launch with harbor pilot comes out – the fire shipAmbrose, ships burning quickly on the water. I love ships against the blue,houses against the blue of the jutting sky. Pieces in place. Singlenesspreserved – single family dwelling developing in swatches of grey paint –old manorial homes of the thirties, with curved railings, round windowslooking out to sea. Cars also – like boats. Drove the Cadillac into the wind,making waves of the pavement. Chunks of pavement thrown up, worn
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down by the continual action of the water. Glass bottles worn down tosmooth counters, bits and pieces of crockery, evocative of China, a landknown for its ridges and relative distances, containing the most formidableland barrier on the Western approaches. Three months to cross, a littleless to get back. Fewer, less – cardinal, ordinal?? No, just fewer people likeless noise – good thing as everyone moves to the periphery of the park.Or discrete and continuous – the buildings downtown discrete chunks ofsubstance, the slope of the mountain continuous with the earth, formingmany several mountains. Overwhelmed and taken away – bashful on re-proach. What strings it together – sullen angry flashes of misplaced intent,misplaced years ago in an attempt to be clear. The look of love alarms whenfilled with fire. Looking as from a deep hole to a deep hole, the holesline up – contact flashing in back causes shudder and explosions. Yoursmoke is lifting like a cloud. You are a signal, mechanical, sentiment andattachment in rings around the earth. What you make is yours, directedas implied, conscious, able to take it as made. Soon as I blank out, I backout then. So that felt good. It was a common perception and an old one –men and boys rolling down slopes.
A dream that Urne Buriall was theend of a long work in which the Urnes wererepositories of more than ashes – but oncewe're dead and finished, then the Urneshold our ashes too. Thus Urne Buriallis the sequel to a great unwritten tract.
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Robert Creeley
NOTE
Fragmented phrases,phases, faceit.
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Nothing left.It'sover.
•
Goneagain. Oh
come in!
•
You ateit all.
(OnMonday.)
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Idid?
"Note."
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Robert Grenier
down to nothing about
transference isolates
whistlewhiten
sheep scare
man in a white cedar sedan
thoughtliving inDavis wouldbe ok
bench is missing
likely tomeet severalpeople walkingin the woods
six get the chairs
mechanisms for closed parking lot
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Clark Coolidge
TINY MESSAGESfor Tom Clark
1.spun around and wired backto six times in the intervalsit is three herenow and more on the way
2.are you nuts?whisper?pink one?ABC?
3.a fewsaw some farmon the way homethat's all
4.
even
only two more at least once in a low voice
5.each
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eyesbackthe wrist
6.chest and shoulderseven and perhaps
7.bushes and tall ducksand sunning salty blocks
but cat strode
8.to toebenttreein a brown twosince the first
9.headdownstealingclearing
10.clad
11.exact number of treeseen or never seen
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12.funds and puffsthere to do so
13.and in the endhalvesof his name twice
14.radiocountsmovesstill
15.planes for truckstoothpicksfor taking it so
and next also knew thatwhole was a jerk
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16.andthat Idon't like itwho didn't either
17.crumbsare goingto fly it
for each messof good faith
18.it informedeverything for nothing
sheer genius
19.cents apiececents an egg
20.so longto live tooinside that cloud
21.
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it was the daythe numberforeveryour turn
22.some sortof moreoughtto increasea hundredor even two
23.ing on my part, wasn't it
24.bordersmorethan fouror fivefeetapart
25.green water awakeand then sand and slept
26.the soil
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in numberleft behindhalf in him
27.hum on the seawide in the head
28.mote himbust himmote him
precisely
29.fresh
eggs in the duckice in the cream
30.MoodusNoises
31.pick it up and throw it at this then
32.one step aheadif you want to
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I'm not going to
33.then four before thatsince the last time
34.
the speedwith which actingsmarted him
35.man in minutesfall in clothes
36.but while there was none upthat was so up in common
37.
out in oneright out againjust more and once
38.close the very top ofopen high left right
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39.enoughby the timeand rowwell
40.one that greenthat to the somethingwhat it was whom
41.farslowlywith a something
42.white was not at allsinceand the two were
43.liquid jarsstraightened outwash onsort of and evenclear else
44.late in the morningin which had leftat the picture
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45.the morningin front of out of anycovers
46.sothat coming on daysbefore
47.the remote themon the take him
48.it was all standhalfany of thesetoad
49.rulesgreensayssee
50.I'll ask I am
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51.that catches thenas soon as more
52.art and atit alljust the way
53.atuntilagainin no time
54.instead
one of
beside
55.between the blackenoughscience and bushes
56.sending outmore sentout before
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57.awhilesmallone and if
58.the same spells boltedit less than back
59.poolsmore inchesthan ever
60.down north a waymore than an inchin one place
61.more than a thing toothey were red
62.and oftenand neverswell of area
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63.in heat elbow or blanket
64.past the already
65.leaveson the rounds
66.who where?month?
67.mass to lookas though steps past
68.stairsand as to be allright
69.silver like sions
70.that
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he waseitheranother
or another
71.the lastone aroundwas out
72.it was all veryapart limb
73.the think
74.while andso on
75.namehad been been madeand thumps
76.room and room
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behind them all
77.even over so
78.one no one
79.up to less than never
80.white is outair on there
81.plate
solid flaps
82.there was always were more
83.an inchaftera minute
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84.
from
ants to sides
85.face andwith him
86.with and with itswill as long as
87.downdoneas were five
88.thefunofwas
89.
even
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not want to and was not had to
90.howeveras of used it
91.if either have hador neither ever did
92.the line and the and
93.mostsansvateever
94.some might have side it
95.other one of the the things that's ever
96.
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how then thosethe very lots
97.that was also almost night
98.right out of afirston a wall
99..to the inch at it
100.with the otherjust as twice
100.that other timechance in line
102.inside down
103.
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same
more and made
104.door in still backs
105.high greenlight black
106.once morepadnear width
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107.thenandthenadded
108.antined
109.sankovertwicea circle
110.that farenough
111.less andthe lot
112.theredowup to pin
113.
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never than less
114.about even thereabout that and then
115.sintuetoad
116.lightblackflats
117.samethat sameand that right
118.gum on out
119.the room and hale
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green book
120.the deepthere aboutthe one
121.der blade
122.the rubberinan air
123.one moreand white
124.tinyotherpieces
125.brown snap
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club squat
126.bagstillroom
127.all the timeas long asto countIdahoin order
128.
can take
can time
129.once once
130.no and big in the down go
131.the range
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a cone
13VI-25VII 1970
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Bruce Andrews
NO 127
senate subsided
water text
bleached
amorata
serf
balconies
hitcher fluid
spin
enforce snuff
reed wards
wish
place
claret
virtues
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enkindle
sequestered bewildered
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eddying
twelve cop was
cake-eaters
alkali hop
*
bayonet
treasury
scholars
*
gob
ping prow
fez chunks
*
niggered
punkin
vest
clear
epilept
annul scoops
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oak
them
unanimous
organdy
*
asphodel
and yatter
hoax unsettle bays
faithful
*
tent
glaze
levity
undoing
locust ford vases bigod
*
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livery jars
phrase
lean
high
astern
lobe
waist
cave
*
whoop
*
potash
oath
madder
SONG NO 151
equal charm
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TOM RAWORTH
BEAUTIFUL HABIT for Ed and Jenny
greetingsas the door openedticking
please listen to thisfood alone for allthe f.b.i. will continue
maybe you dozed offi hung by that phone all nightsuppose he talks
*
vida
later
aria
*
once upon a timenot looking for any thing
*
you’re onyour ownit's offits on
*
perhaps it meansragged like thatgolda ma-yeer
pre-meer
*
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and pour the old boxdown a drain
*
too much newssaid the news
*
r e o l e
*
it's usor rustlistener
*
deep
personal
regret
looking
up
monday
*
we can saveyour head or your bodywe can shave
*
evenhis admissionisa subtle lie
*
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in suspensewhat is cut intothe smallest of' the
*
grinding
to fill
a prescription
*
drum to the wobble and a roll on the seacome to mind an article of' lightdistance through distance unfinished
*
piano
*
willing to believe
*
national
anthem
hearer
*
perfect rhyme to some
all cars
kept in doors
*
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sophisticatednewsmenshow howit could have been
*
retreatfrom the swisslegation
*
numbersfor an event
*
corruptionwhy not?
*
infinite
detail
is no more real
*
thought
against
power
*
answerit
*
hookedto just anotherpiece of' tape
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hookedto just one morelittle piece of tape
*
entertainment followsthe profitjuggler
*
through words in tonorecord
*
writer
righter
riter
*
am:
i
on replay?
*
all youdo isexpandthe system
*
a polaroidof lawith the wrongvoice print
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*
astronaut
amazed
at what
was expected
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PERPETUAL IDOTION for Bill and Marilyn
tanksgo intobattle
*
the arabs photograph themselvesfrom the israeli point of view
*
looking backlooking forward
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througheatingbitingchewingup to ten whole hours
*
for peoplewho don't likethe real thing
*
clevererspeakinghonestly
*
small shipments of white arms
*
some think it's to do with the line
*
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no thank youi don't play with watches
*
effectivenovember first
*
take itand bake itand wrap itin under
*
the mythof creation
*
now
then
charlie
*
exposesthemto extreme danger
*
learning to see what others seethere is no superiority
*
complete with everything you see
*
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mission impossible tape reading
*
*
reception
*
je ne veux pasles biscuits chocolats
*
warplanes
*
a cat's concept of the mindthat could make it danceand sing by editing film
*
marywas assumedinto heaven
*
slowlythrough thesnow theygo
*
openpour
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andstore
*
what everyou heard
*
love in mindsun through the blind
*
splendidolig
*
crime the adrenaltime the pineal
*
far awaya piein the highsierras
*
on trick playshe'll use hishead, nose, eyes, face
*
with powerspeeding powerslowing noemergency
*
attachedto
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awardspower
*
home work
*
methismatch
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MR. & MRS. GRIEF for Asa and Pip
scalpelnurse
*
a flickerbook ofnot noticing any thing
*
overdisc
*
many living room here
*
that's it then
*
the universeas god'sparanoia
*
night
light
night
*
arches and a car
*
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safe in the arms of whoyou'll be dryer
chillandtest
*
bend
*
a loup
*
cage face
see him puke and become a lumpkin
*
"i’ll go""oh no"
*
helmutbonheim
*
whcn it's in this form
*
actual demonstration
*
w g n
television
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presents
*
stammer "crewcut"
*
dyed hairpainted faces
*
put it in a form
*
try
sybil
out
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William Corbett
AUCTION
Peeled logs ivory shinebefore long weatheredstale looking, grey.
I could not understandthe man in the boathis lips were burned.
Wet leaf shinewet children gleamtips of pine and spruce tipschartreuse from the darker green.
Chill after sunburnfootsteps like gunshots.
Half moon's throwacross hills, down meadows.Among the shaggy pinesdarkness. The barn'slaboring shadow.A harbor underwaterlike nowhere else.
AmandaNightcatshoelacesankleswarmat the footof the bed.
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Lemon cucumber flowerstomatoes' yellow pointeddrooping flower, faint orangeglamorous flush of squash blossoms.
His brother is his sontheir mother the same one.
Along the lake shoreblue gasoline trailsfollow slow fishing boats.
For AdeleBefore and behindabove and belowthe four pointed sweet woodruff.
Hay bales, forearmsshaken trees. Joan bitingthe inside of her cheekhere these physical thingsuncluttered, unoffended.
One year ago. Just likethe Spanish flag with shoes onthe jokes were of sore, red assholes.
Warm wide fieldsoft greenour own big bedand beneaththe delicate brainroots of all growing makes.
Scoop the glittering watermoon lights in our handscool the flesh like this forever.
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Black or brown cloudscows in the headlightsstrong, archaic headstheir globular eyes stare.
Beet blood, beet rootpink buds of her asspropped on a pillow.
BattenvilleNunnelley's purplehot in a delicatesteamy way & Gerald's pestogarlic, fresh sweet basilwaking in the windowgold and green blazesun through black locust leavesand know that friendsawait you when you rise.
Dense white stranglingsmoke, sizzling green trees.
Orange moon's expressionon water, a benisonribs also steps to walk upon.
Gone the dandelionsgone hawkweed crownsthe lupin fuzzy black fingersblack eyed suzans bleachedwhite at petal's tip.
Color of moonlight on waterpine scentsoon we will be gone.
Spiders died in the booksbrown plump long legsdead in the bathtub.
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Not wanting summer's endthe wind to risethe light to change.
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DRUNKENNESS
What do you concentrate on
and who do you know?
Driving mother's blue Buick
over a country dirt road
the girl's huge tits, your ardor
enough to just about weep
and escape or college friendship
dull, secure and to sleep.
You did find your way home
one late summer afternoon
the shadows of green leaves
their washing sound
exquisite tender sentiment
neither here nor there.
No putting out the fire
with water pure as the rain
nor petals nor ginger ale.