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The Roominghouse Madrigals

    22,000 Dollars In 3 Months - pg. 13
    On Seeing An Old Civil War Painting With My Love - pg. 15
    What To Do With Contributor's Copies? - pg. 17
    Brave Bull - pg. 19
    It's Not Who Lived Here - pg. 21
    O, We Are The Outcasts, O We Burn In Wondrous Flame! - pg. 22
    Poem For My 43rd Birthday - pg. 30
    The Genius Of The Crowd - pg. 31
    4:30 A.M. - pg. 34
    The Simplicity Of Everything In Viet Nam - pg. 36
    The Night They Took Whitey - pg. 37
    The Japanese Wife - pg. 39
    Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs - pg. 41
    The Loser - pg. 43
    On A Night You Don't Sleep - pg. 44
    An Empire Of Coins - pg. 45
    All I Know - pg. 48
    On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show - pg. 49
    Anthony - pg. 50
    Layover - pg. 51
    The Dogs Of Egypt - pg. 52
    Old Man, Dead In A Room - pg. 53
    Love Is A Piece Of Paper Torn To Bits - pg. 55
    Big Bastard With A Sword - pg. 56
    About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter - pg. 59
    Not Quite So Soon - pg. 62
    Counsel - pg. 63
    I Wait In The White Rain - pg. 65
    Breakout - pg. 67
    I Cannot Stand Tears - pg. 69
    Horse On Fire - pg. 70
    Mother And Son - pg. 71
    The Day I Kicked Away A Bankroll - pg. 73
    The Dogs - pg. 76
    Imbecile Night - pg. 77
    A Kind Of Lecture On A Dull Day When There Isn't Even A Fly Around To Kill - pg. 79
    The Gift - pg. 80
    Object Lesson - pg. 82
    Eat - pg. 84
    Goldfish - pg. 84
    Sleep - pg. 85
    Hello, Willie Shoemaker - pg. 86
    The Literary Life - pg. 88
    Countryside - pg. 90
    Death Wants More Death - pg. 92
    10 Lions And The End Of The World - pg. 96
    The Blackbirds Are Rough Today - pg. 97
    A Word On The Quick And Modern Poem-Makers - pg. 99
    Seahorse - pg. 100
    I Have Lived In England - pg. 101
    Farewell, Foolish Objects - pg. 102
    A Report Upon The Consumption Of Myself - pg. 105
    Fleg - pg. 107
    Interviewed By A Guggenheim Recipient - pg. 110
    Very - pg. 112
    The Look - pg. 114
    One Night Stand - pg. 115
    Poem To A Most Affectionate Lady - pg. 116
    Parts Of An Opera, Parts Of A Guitar, Parts Of Nowhere - pg. 118
    Letter From The North - pg. 120
    The Best Way To Get Famous Is To Run Away - pg. 121
    The Kings Are Gone - pg. 123
    Reprieve And Admixture - pg. 124
    The Swans Walk My Brain In April It Rains - pg. 125
    The End - pg. 127
    A Farewell Thing While Breathing - pg. 128
    Sad-Eyed Mules Of Men - pg. 129
    Dear Friend - pg. 130
    A Conversation on Morality, Eternity and Copulation - pg. 132
    Soiree - pg. 134
    Notations From A Muddled Indolence - pg. 135
    Nothing Subtle - pg. 137
    I Don't Need A Bedsheet With Slits For Eyes To Kill You In - pg. 138
    86'D - pg. 139
    The Ants - pg. 141
    Suicide - pg. 143
    3:30 A.M. Conversation - pg. 145
    Cows In Art Class - pg. 147
    Practice - pg. 150
    I Kneel - pg. 154
    Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle Of Myself - pg. 155
    Singing Is Fire - pg. 156
    The Sun Wields Mercy - pg. 158
    On The Failure Of A Poet - pg. 161
    The Beast - pg. 163
    A Rat Rises - pg. 165
    Pansies - pg. 166
    The Man With The Hot Nose - pg. 167
    Hangover And Sick Leave - pg. 169
    Mercy, Wherever You Are, Come Running In To Grab Me In Your Good Arms - pg. 170
    It's Nothing To Laugh About - pg. 172
    35 Seconds - pg. 174
    Regard Me - pg. 176
    With Vengeance Like A Tiger Crawls - pg. 177
    Itch, Come And Gone - pg. 179
    This - pg. 180
    2 Outside, As Bones Break In My Kitchen - pg. 181
    Saying Goodbye To Love - pg. 182
    You Smoke A Cigarette - pg. 183
    Friendly Advice To A Lot Of Young Men - pg. 184
    Everything - pg. 185
    American Express, Athens, Greece - pg. 187
    One Hundred And Ninety-Nine Pounds Of Clay Leaning Forward - pg. 189
    I Write This Upon The Last Drink's Hammer - pg. 191
    Poem For Liz - pg. 195
    A Nice Place - pg. 197
    Insomnia - pg. 198
    Wrong Number - pg. 199
    When The Berry Bush Dies I'll Swim Down The Green River With My Hair On Fire - pg. 200
    Face While Shaving - pg. 202
    9 Rings - pg. 203
    Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude - pg. 204
    Thank God For Alleys - pg. 206
    The Millionaire - pg. 207
    Dow Jones: Down - pg. 209
    As I Lay Dying - pg. 210
    A Minor Impulse To Complain - pg. 211
    Buffalo Bill - pg. 213
    Experience - pg. 215
    I Am Visited By An Editor And A Poet - pg. 217
    The Mexican Girls - pg. 219
    The New Place - pg. 221
    Conversation In A Cheap Room - pg. 224
    I Was Born To Hustle Roses Down The Avenues Of The Dead - pg. 226
    Winter Comes In A Lot Of Places In August - pg. 228
    Bring Down The Beams - pg. 229
    Reunion - pg. 231
    Fragile - pg. 233
    I Am With The Roots Of Flowers - pg. 236
    Monday Beach, Cold Day - pg. 238
    The High-Rise Of The New World - pg. 240
    The Gypsies Near Del Mar - pg. 242
    6 A.M. - pg. 243
    A Trick To Dull Our Bleeding - pg. 245
    Rose, Rose - pg. 247
    Spain Sits Like A Hidden Flower In My Coffeepot - pg. 249
    Thermometer - pg. 252
    Eaten By Butterflies - pg. 254
    Destroying Beauty - pg. 256