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1. You Uterus / You Have Been Patient / As A Sock

2. I Lean Back - / As The Evening Darkens And Comes On. / A Chicken Hawk Floats Over - Looking For Home. / I Have Wasted My Life.

3. Robert / Was Born Obedient / Without Questions / Did A Dance Called / Picking Grapes / Sticking His Butt Out / For Pennies / Married A Master / Who Whipped His Mind / Until He Died

4. I Have Known The Inexorable Sadness Of Pencils - / Neat In Their Boxes - Dolor Of Pad And Paper-Weight - / All The Misery Of Manilla Folders And Mucilage - / Desolation In Immaculate Public Places -

5. Young Tree - Unburdened / By Anything But Your Beautiful Natural Blossoms / And Dew - The Dark / Blood In My Body Drags Me / Down With My Brother.

6. There Is No Loneliness Like Theirs. / At Home Once More - / They Begin Munching The Young Tufts Of Spring In The Darkness. / I Would Like To Hold The Slenderer One In My Arms - / For She Has Walked Over To Me / And / Nuzzled My Left Hand.

7. Body My House / My Horse / My Hound / What Will I Do / When You Are Fallen / Where Will I Sleep / How Will I Ride / What Will I Hunt / Where Can I Go / Without My Mount / All Eager And Quick / How Will I Know In Thicket Ahead / Is Danger Or Treasure / When Body My Good / Bright Dog Is Dead

8. Did You Ever Feel A Man Hold / Sixty-Five Cents / In A Hook - / And Place It / Gently / In Your Freezing Hand?

9. Sundays Too My Father Got Up Early / And Put His Clothes On In The Blueblack Cold - / Then With Cracked Hands That Ached / From Labor In The Weekday Weather Made / Banked Fires Blaze. No One Ever Thanked Him.

10. Filling Her Compact & Delicious Body / With Chicken Paprika - She Glanced At Me / Twice. / Fainting With Interest - I Hungered Back / And Only The Fact Of Her Husband & Four Other People / Kept Me From Spring On Her

11. Life - Friends - Is Boring. We Must Not Say So. / After All - The Sky Flashes - The Great Sea Yearns - / We Ourselves Flash And Yearn - / And Moreover My Mother Told Me As A Boy / (Repeatingly) 'Ever To Confess You're Bored / Means You Have No / Inner Resources.'

12. Talk About Columbus - / I Tell You Who Discovered / America; / Martin Luther King / That's Who.

13. This Is The Field Where The Battle Did Not Happen - / Where The Unknown Soldier Did Not Die. / This Is The Field Where Grass Joined Hands - / Where No Monument Stands - / And The Only Heroic Thing Is The Sky.

14. I Stared And Stared / And Victory Filled Up / The Little Rented Boat - / From The Pool Of Bilge / Where Oil Had Spread A Rainbow / Around The Rusted Engine / To The Bailer Rusted Orange - / The Sun-Cracked Thwarts - / The Oarlocks On Their Strings - / The Gunnels-Until Everything / Was Rainbow - Rainbow - Rainbow!

15. From My Mother's Sleep I Fell Into The State - / And I Hunched In Its Belly Till My Wet Fur Froze.

16. When I Was A Child / I Had A Graveyard/ Where I Buried Insects / And Dead Birds Under / A Rose Tree. / I Would Bury The Insects / In Tin Foil And Match Boxes. / I Would Bury The Birds / In Pieces Of Red Cloth. / It Was All Very Sad / And I Would Cry / As I Scooped The Dirt / Into Their Small Graves With A Spoon.

17. The Waiting Room Was Bright / And Too Hot. It Was Sliding / Beneath A Big Black Wave - / Another - And Another. / Then I Was Back In It. / The War Was On. Outside - / In Worcester - Massachusetts - / Were Night And Slush And Cold - / And It Was Still The Fifth / Of February - 1918.

18. When I Saw That Clumsy Crow / Flap From A Wasted Tree - / A Shape In The Mind Rose Up: / Over The Gulfs Of Dream / Flew A Tremendous Bird / Further And Further Away / Into A Moonless Black - / Deep In The Brain - Far Back.

19. Wait - For Now. / Distrust Everything - If You Have To. / But Trust The Hours. Haven't They / Carried You Everywhere - Up To Now? / Personal Events Will Become Interesting Again. / Hair Will Become Interesting. / Pain Will Become Interesting.

20. Listen - / You A Wonder. / You A City / Of A Woman. / You Got Geography / Of Your Own.

21. Who / Can Blame Her For Hunkering/ Into The Doorwells At Night - / The Only Blaze In The Dark / The Brush Of Her Hopeful Tail - / The Only Starlight / Her Little Bared Teeth?

22. & Horribly - Unlike Bach - It Occurred To Me / That One Night - Instead Of Warm Pajamas - / I'd Take Off All My Clothes / & Cross The Damp Cold Lawn & Down The Bluff / Into The Terrible Water & Walk Forever / Under It Out Toward The Island.

23. The Self Persists Like A Dying Star - / In Sleep - Afraid. Death's Face Rises Afresh - / Among The Shy Beasts - The Deer At The Salt-Lick - / The Doe With Its Sloped Shoulders Loping Across The Highway - / The Young Snake - Poised In Green Leaves - Waiting For Its Fly - / The Hummingbird - Whirring From Quince-Blossom To Morning-Glory- / With These I Would Be.

24. Indelicate Is He Who Loathes / The Aspect Of His Fleshy Clothes -

25. The Eyes Open To A Blue Telephone / In The Bathroom Of This Five-Star Hotel. / I Wonder Whom I Should Call? A Plumber - / Proctologist - Urologist - Or Priest? / Who Is Blessed Among Us And Most Deserves / The First Call?

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