MEDITATION IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
Blue sky
few crags, the slopes
are green
air
whistling by
the granite stopwatch
9/IX/62
THINGS WE CAN STILL BELIEVE IN
lots of overdue librarian
the eventual toad
crazy sanity faltering by the sea
goddam huge lungs
pills that swallow themselves
yesterday: (before and after)
two wings flapping in the mind
falling beanbags sadly
small wet black cold-cuts
the failure of a mammary piano
all tears shall dry up!
energetic golden mindworm
the factotum remembered
candied love removed from a radio
human cries will dry up the sap flow
to marry a woman gathers moss
tar replaces wax at the earholes
ghosts rematerialize at a drop of the pants
greensleeves becomes our national anthem
grossly miscalculated are our surds
I can't recall a more perfect war!
we have invented a sound which will drown out all others
can you look me in the eyes and shout: foe! (?)
can you flee the moan of gold?
oddly enough the sky is still blue occasionally
television hawks our heart disease
never will the moon be enough
we're under the sun too
lovers jailed for crazy
a matter of the president's sex
enough tears become lenses for the eyes
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A man just dropped by, about our old love.
Prov. May, 1962
COLLECTED NAMES
Flywheel Pester
Craggy Oldbitch
Simperer Remley
Tantamount T. Tightwad
Woodsmell Q. Breakbrain
Privey Under
Feldspar Chipjaw
Friendoman Guiley (The Elder)
Fabian Victim
Crenshaw Cloacha
Coonbread Glempsh
Tugowar A. Trembley
Fillmouth C. Bathless
Gout Clamp
Fag Earl
Stimpson Stutter
Garbagemine Cluster
Premper Peed
Stencil Untz
Goatshard List
Pickaninny Christ
Penis Pencilkrantz
A. Greater Gastower
Felinity Felon
Grapeface Goldcrap
Gaston Greeb
Stylish Slow
Presown Pence
Globular Toad
Viable Magnet
Findme A. Coldspot (The Beachboy)
Crandall Cream
Cranberry Flyless
Gordo Abom
Flimsy Blacknote
Callous Cryhard
Drank Rabies
Coreless Hose
Fedora Kaballa
Kalabash Unguent
Various Nudes
Skitteyboom Croak
Vagabond Beehive
Candy Crawless
Talkable Talents
Federal Groaner
Kindly Free
Goneis Love
Genesis Treebranch
Coldwater Rill
"Big" Ripple (Negro Blues Singer)
Cryless Bone
Whitey Coon
Album Spadeface
Raga Votefree
Potty Chamberlain
Breathless Mattress
Delect Able Maggott
Cara Pace
Prov. - 8/VI/62
(a spontaneous ode
to "'the electric toad')
"LOOKING AHEAD" (for C.T.)
"I went to the animal fair
the birds and the beasts were there
the big baboon, by the light of the moon
was combing her golden hair"
terrible gusts - unbelievable GAS!
glowing rod - red on tapers - dress in darkness
nevertheless - sounding emptylot - isinglass murmurs
vineland - grape and shot - bags of own
gentle soap flowing - on gable and slide
fisting titanic - grass flowers - everly on
breakable zoo - inbred in bread - tool tunes
zonitor flux and flow - every tricky eternity
ocean stability and rock - of floor and tide origins
exasperate - glib and grow - nevertheless
janitor ponders - the cellar bugs meditate
line on bass - "you'll never get a job!"
simple sin rule - whacked wrists - all aglow again
sever - that flow - too severe - never! - icicles onward
Prov. 8/V/62
IMPROVISATION ON THE GREYISH FACE
It's crazy, you watch skies
flavorfull sun, green
"Don't ask me to forgive you"
The Devil's Quarry nevertheless
querulous, temperature of tempest
emotionheat!
The grab-irons! flatfooted flotation, in
Toobey's backlot there's
enough pestsilence
Sun gone black clouds in back of the sulfur the light
mist mist's odd, mire you
can't surface
Oh!
Glasses, put on, feeling
insisted on ice, Sis
scream if you want
Volumes of poetry scaling walls, the notion
(recall you?) ream that fall
That Fall she couldn't
He was vengeful, he
at the point of falling
in, "Fallguy" nevers
Coughed! coughy, all coffee, intrepid
and stalwart you know it, well we'll
wait - wait, back there
Dizzy and silent and wrapt up
all passion glow, burn
fire glowwood glow, worm
worms are, lately
Wait a long wait along the south face they're up
a black corkscrew they're up to
the rock wet black the rock
Scab circus circle and step
you'll tomorrow down a blue city plain
it hurts over sharp edges
The color of air is blue the oxygen gives it
aching sun and body on, trembling on
sheer mind wall
They're up there they're up they're coming they're coming
down!
acrid coiling rope timbers Naw!
coming down it's, scree only scree
Come clown clowning down the rippy pitch
excelsior pants and shit corduroy ope
it's the open flashnight nope!
Up blue light sheer symetries down, clay
the empty spaces and entering faces, the last
one down's an angel too.
Prov. 9:VIII:62
VISION SHOT NIGHT
for Lamantia
Whiteness! drippings of bulbs of night--sheer gauze knit black absence
of neon
Inverted wilderness of blue windows of trees agony smudges fabric of the
open wounded stars
Casting gold net--crystals of dream fish--echo movement the shrill tinkle
of pigiron candles snuffed down eyes of roaring forge smoking
Hair paste leaking from sunny kindergarten skulls--eyes writhing snakes--
alarms of ecstasy of darkness of whirling put-downs pot-dooms
the fear-fumed sundays
To fear tower to launch wheel to green mustard planks--strewn brain wires
phosphorescent white worms--radiator piles of queer underwear
clanking bottom of the boat the skull car of electric ear wax
The cat snaps shut--pipes whistle wall space--silence turns rust in
thoughts--cradle pictures the bulb going out gong entreaty in
shivering silver box--the black fart at whistle signaling
dawn come yellow among the crying jellies
Boredom brown cones over eyes the burping monks--tears
turn invisible daggers--fresh meat smell--overlarge lemonade
attacks Wimpy's bolas turds--fringe of elevator strap
blowing eight giraffe clouds in dust of resin sun of
crumble of roof top streets
Ghost traces in leaking attics of piss on nail boards splinter off
the mind thinking sweet bells--troubling A-major scale--tank
maneuvers scattering candy babies in howling sun wilt fields
showing midnight film of garbage for sticky fingers stinking
voice answering gay questioneer in orange globes tottering the tree
line sky
Obnoxious strong jellyfish on soda straws landing Malibu-screech--
bladder explodes the fire engines rolling legendary--asphalt maniac
in surge of sunday papers self consciousness pissing water
the importance of underground meters measuring robot destruction--
dandruff rate of sunflowers--toenail escape from the washing machine
hysterical mothers in madness of plastic motel rooms
transparent to the moon
Go religious to the sunday toad--rooms reclining the stare of mad
eyes-capsule of ingot hatred in ruby boules removed from
visionary furnace in total mystery in total mind blast blooding
the avenues with cretin tentacles monastery drinking fit--
to be shat with mucous drain to peaceful ceilings--submerging
swaying platinum heights of cities in entrails of tomato pasteboard
sentence structure gas drive piping minions of hot onion
scandal and the bathing entreaties of three rubber owls
Wake up plastered and hire intelligent human guns and future cities the
crispy racket of breakfast crackers going over the toaster-radio
radioactive jellies the hissing palate intent on holy crunching
absorbing finality of whiskered whispers of troglodyte stare
wondering where death blackened money tunes playing the lysol organ
high in perfume vapor of death gasp in horror the space of finger
snap chained to charred wall pyres of staked out city nursing
from the last falsie human tit removed from hierarchy time
capsule lounging millenia under moon of steel tons--synchronized
crack of mind plunger pushed--laughing crowds of mobile eggs
encrust torn fabric cement found the boiling red lake
habitation of crustaceans screaming eyeless
Eyeball capsules drop revealing lead termites in windy absence
space of avenues lusting the invisible woman and lunching gas mains
demitasse in star whorl--marking crayon visible apricot atmospheres of
the Popeye Supermouse binge--shadow on paper latest soupsilly results at
arsemess palace--tuber of acrid glass teeth dissolving vapors attacking
chalk news gall sanity-all tags left of human waste vomiting capillary
insect intelligence in cold grim green ball accumulating juices sticks
pipes cops flypaper and Koolaid stands flapping icicles
Goulish peppers and silly nuts street cries hawking the monstral fly face--
looming wreckage vistas through searchlit circles ownerless suns--
total racket of mind equals humming spectrum of all pure tones--
banana orgasm of music overcomes every dreaming funnypaper--
commuter service accident in tar paper demolition--queasy
recipes of the Campbell cannon--bible toilet paper wipes asshole
of prayers--vulcanized hornpout bubble their eagled victory
Ramps soldier the incipient shriek of liquid industry in shoe shrink
in wave in gas pop of pink lavatory gladness--garbage kings
the kinks out of flapdoodle infringement as turbine
warp work of war worries the eel grass slow blow fish to sell
of endless bebop garment
Settle this sticky picture with sin and saliva and suck of sandwich
sores--free bubbling mind from penis entry of Goofy--grab the falling
plaster from ice wall of fable--free man a blue plate void of
tear blood follicle futurity
Came foxy back organ vortex of bashing owl balls--tell
toothy truth of troll pox bridge udder soapy stools
fry eggplant eyebulbs and troop the goof high life
red foil
absent keys
inky soul
switch of giggle
witch of clothing
cocksman poptoon
prick grandfather
O go flyless to moon
No news is nonsense sucked from pink wink eye teats in
the club foot streets
--Prov 17I63
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