Two Quits And A Drum, And Elegy For Drinkers (Alan Dugan Poems)
1. ON ASPHALT: NO GREENS Quarry out the stone of land, cobble the beach, wall surf, name it "street," allow ...
Alan Dugan Poems (24 Poems)
Wall, Cave, And Pillar Statements, After Asoka (Alan Dugan Poems)
In order to perfect all readers the statements should he carved on rock walls, on cave walls, and on the ...
Against A Sickness: To The Female Double Principle God (Alan Dugan Poems)
She said: "I'm god and all of this and that world and love garbage and slaughter all the time and ...
Remembering An Account Executive (Alan Dugan Poems)
He had a back office in his older brother's advertising agency and understood the human asshole. He ...
On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860-64 (Alan Dugan Poems)
Because of the unaccountable spirit of the troops oh we were marched as we were never marched before and flanked ...
Internal Migration: On Being On Tour (Alan Dugan Poems)
As an American traveler I have to remember not to get actionably mad about the way things are around here. ...
Portrait From The Infantry (Alan Dugan Poems)
He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries of being scared while sleepless when he said this: "I want ...
Untitled Poem – III (Alan Dugan Poems)
Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust? It is only an animal urge to perpetuate the ...
Love Song: I And Thou (Alan Dugan Poems)
Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits ...
Prison Song (Alan Dugan Poems)
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water, rearing to escape me. Where could it find another animal as ...
Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman (Alan Dugan Poems)
If you work a body of water and a body of woman you can take fish out of one and ...
Plague Of Dead Sharks (Alan Dugan Poems)
Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet slough off, in spring, the ...
Fabrication Of Ancestors (Alan Dugan Poems)
For old Billy Dugan, shot in the ass in the Civil War, my father said.The old wound in my ass ...
Prayer (Alan Dugan Poems)
God, I need a job because I need money. Here the world is, enjoyable with whiskey, women, ultimate weapons, and ...
On Being A Householder (Alan Dugan Poems)
I live inside of a machine or machines. Every time one goes off another starts. Why don't I go outside ...
Poem (Alan Dugan Poems)
After your first poetry readingI shook hands with youand got a hard-on. Thank you.We know that old treescan not feel ...
On Hurricane Jackson (Alan Dugan Poems)
Now his nose's bridge is broken, one eye will not focus and the other is a stray; trainers whisper in ...
Untitled Poem – II (Alan Dugan Poems)
Speciously individual like a solid piece of spit floating in a cuspidor I dream of free bravery but am a ...
Nomenclature (Alan Dugan Poem)
My mother never heard of Freud and she decided as a little girl that she would call her husband Dick ...
Swing Shift Blues (Alan Dugan Poem)
What is better than leaving a bar in the middle of the afternoon besides staying in it or not having ...
Elegy (Alan Dugan Poem)
I know but will not tell you, Aunt Irene, why there are soap suds in the whiskey: Uncle Robert had ...
How We Heard the Name (Alan Dugan Poem)
The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it ...
On Looking for Models (Alan Dugan Poem)
The trees in time have something else to do besides their treeing. What is it. I'm a starving to death ...
Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton (Alan Dugan Poem)
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional ...