The Boy (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
It is the boy in me who's looking out the window, while someone across the street mends a pillowcase, clouds ...
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
Pottering around the stage, a hyperactive ancient in his own backyard - independent of the band it seems. Disrhythmic shuffling ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
He took a quick puff as he walked along headphones on, a quick puff not really breathing in for affect ...
It was the incongruity the foreign color, out of place sand camouflage on the Humvee merging with me, on the ...
Sitting, far from still In the hall, waiting, Waiting for word From the court Would my emergency relief Be granted ...
It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant a face as easily hurt by laughter or light ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
The wind Undecided Rolls a cigarette of air The mute girl talks: It is art's imperfection. This impenetrable speech. The ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, And therefore got on a Committee With several ...
There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one ...
You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps ...
We used to picnic where the thrift Grew deep and tufted to the edge; We saw the yellow foam flakes ...
Je connais le d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes. Le d?sespoir n'a pas d'ailes, il ne se tient pas n?cessairement ? ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His dinner dishes were undone, ...
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay ...
she's young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pretty ...
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It's two-thirty. Everyone has deserted you, or this is ...
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used it along the way. I ...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and I can't even say mama, and the dogs run by ...
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, ...
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water ...
in the hospitals and jails it's the worst in madhouses it's the worst in penthouses it's the worst in skid ...
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