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  • Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
    Lana Turner has collapsed!
    I was trotting along and suddenly
    17 lines
  • Digression On Number 1, 1948
    I am ill today but I am not
    too ill.  I am not ill at all.
    22 lines
  • For Grace, After A Party
    You do not always know what I am feeling.
    Last night in the warm spring air while I was
    19 lines
  • Lines For The Fortune Cookies
    I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.
    Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you--even bigger.
    29 lines, 4 comments
  • Meditations In An Emergency
    Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious
    as if I were French?
    60 lines
  • My Heart
    I'm not going to cry all the time
    nor shall I laugh all the time,
    15 lines
  • On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing The Delaware At The Museum Of Modern Art
    Now that our hero has come back to us
    in his white pants and we know his nose
    28 lines
  • The Day Lady Died
    It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
    three days after Bastille day, yes
    29 lines
  • Why I Am Not A Painter
    I am not a painter, I am a poet.
    Why? I think I would rather be
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • Steps
    How funny you are today New York
    like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime
    45 lines
  • As Planned
    After the first glass of vodka
    you can accept just about anything
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • A Step Away From Them
    It's my lunch hour, so I go
    for a walk among the hum-colored
    49 lines
  • Music
    If I rest for a moment near The Equestrian
    pausing for a liver sausage sandwich in the Mayflower Shoppe,
    21 lines
  • 1951
    Alone at night
    in the wet city
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • A City Winter
    1
    I understand the boredom of the clerks
    75 lines
  • A Quiet Poem
    When music is far enough away
    the eyelid does not often move
    14 lines, 6 comments
  • Ann Arbor Variations
    1
    Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
    89 lines, 3 comments
  • At Joan's
    It is almost three
    I sit at the marble top
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • At Night Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Ave Maria
    Mothers of America
                 let your kids go to the movies
    55 lines
  • Call Me
    The eager note on my door said "Call me,"
    call when you get in!" so I quickly threw
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Chinamen Jump
    At night Chinamen jump
    on Asia with a thump
    20 lines
  • Homosexuality
    So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping
    our mouths shut? as if we'd been pierced by a glance!
    22 lines
  • Jane Awake
    The opals hiding your lids
     as you sleep, as you ride ponies
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Melancholy Breakfast
    Melancholy breakfast
    blue overhead blue underneath
    9 lines
  • Morning
    I've got to tell you
    how I love you always
    47 lines, 5 comments
  • Poem (Hate Is Only One Of Many Responses)
    Hate is only one of many responses
    true, hurt and hate go hand in hand
    20 lines, 5 comments
  • Song (Is it dirty)
    Is it dirty
    does it look dirty
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Spleen
    I know so much
    about things, I accept
    14 lines
  • To The Harbormaster
    I wanted to be sure to reach you;
    though my ship was on the way it got caught
    17 lines
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