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  • Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters
    Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof
    out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross
    7 lines
  • An Eastern Ballad
    I speak of love that comes to mind:
    The moon is faithful, although blind;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Hospital Window
    At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke
    ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins
    38 lines
  • Please Master
    Please master can I touch your cheek
    please master can I kneel at your feet
    56 lines, 4 comments
  • Song
    The weight of the world
    is love.
    71 lines
  • America
    America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
    America two dollars and twentyseven cents January
    117 lines, 4 comments
  • Hum Bom!
    Whom bomb?
    We bomb'd them!
    126 lines
  • Wild Orphan
    Blandly mother
    takes him strolling
    40 lines
  • The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality
    Reality is a question
    of realizing how real
    60 lines
  • CIA Dope Calypso
    In nineteen hundred forty-nine
    China was won by Mao Tse-tung
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • Kraj Majales (King Of May)
    And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
    lying policemen
    66 lines
  • Understand That This Is A Dream
    Real as a dream
    What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?
    132 lines
  • Footnote To Howl
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    40 lines, 2 comments
  • Cosmopolitan Greetings
    Stand up against governments, against God.
    Stay irresponsible.
    38 lines
  • Velocity Of Money
    I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows
    of Lower East Side
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government
    Is that the only way we can become like Indians, like Rhinoceri,
    like Quartz Crystals, like organic farmers, like what we imagine
    23 lines
  • When The Light Appears
    You'll bare your bones you'll grow you'll pray you'll only know
    When the light appears, boy, when the light appears
    19 lines
  • War Profit Litany
    To Ezra Pound
    These are the names of the companies that have made
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Transcription Of Organ Music
    The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the
          kitchen crooked to take a place in the light,
    80 lines
  • Those Two
    That tree said
    I don't like that white car under me,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Psalm IV
    Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God:
    It was no dream, I lay broad waking on a fabulous couch in Harlem
    20 lines
  • Plutonian Ode
    I
    What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there
    161 lines
  • Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad
    I came home and found a lion in my room...
    [First draft of \
    18 lines
  • The Lion For Real
    I came home and found a lion in my living room
    Rushed out on the fire escape screaming Lion! Lion!
    61 lines, 2 comments
  • In The Baggage Room At Greyhound
    In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal
    sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky
    99 lines
  • In Back Of The Real
    railroad yard in San Jose
        I wandered desolate
    25 lines
  • Homework
    Homage to Kenneth Koch
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Five A.M.
    Elan that lifts me above the clouds
    into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
    21 lines
  • Father Death Blues
    Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
    Hey poor man, you're all alone
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Crossing Nation
    Under silver wing
    San Francisco's towers sprouting
    37 lines, 1 comment
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