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Fat Man and Dancing Girl

I stand in a wide flat land No shadow or shade of a doubt Whore the megaphone man Met the girl with her hand that's Covering most of her mouth Fall i...

First day out

Here I am at last, I've just jumped off the train I'm about to start my life as a wanderer in the rain I know so many people would give anything to be...

Freezing

If you had no name If you had no history If you had no books If you had no family If it were only you Naked on the grass Who would you be then? This...

Golden

In my heart's currency you are golden You are shining like a sun upon a cold grey sea Here's what I do not know How I come to love you so And in t...

Edith wharton's figurine

Edith wharton's lovely figurines Still speak to me today From their mantlepiece in time Where they wrestle and they play With passions and with p...

Fool's Complaint

How I hate the Queen of Pentacles! Sitting on her golden throne In her domestic tyranny All roads lead back to her alone. The whole wide world is...

In A Lonely Place

I heard it said somewhere that one day all good things come to an end. I turn around to see you. And if I do or not, it all depends. I was born the...

Frank and Ava

On the way to the bidet Is when the trouble used to start It didn't mean she wasn't queen Of the tinderbox that was his heart Her fire his desire...

Freeze Tag

We go to the playground In the wintertime The sun is fading fast Upon the slides into the past Upon the swings of indecision In the wintertime In the...

Harper Lee

Virginia Woolf She leaves me cold I recognize the genius But I'm twice as bold I have more to say Than Hemingway Lord knows, compared to Faulker I sa...

Fifty Fifty Chance

Fifty-fifty chance The doctor said In the cardiac room As she's lying in bed There's a pan on the floor Filled with something black I need to k...

Horizon (There Is A Road)

There is a road Beyond this one It's called the path We don't yet take I can feel how it longs To be entered upon It calls to me with a cry An...

Harbor Song

i dreamed you were a rich man and that i had no place to go i came to you to see if you would take me in through golden curtains you told me you'd let...

Have You Met Miss Jones

„Have you met Sir Jones ?” Someone said as we shook hands He was just Sir Jones to me. Then I said ”Sir Jones You're a boy who understand I'm a girl...

Honeymoon Suite

the ceiling had a painting on it in our room in France so we were living underneath some angels in a dance my husband was not feeling well and so we...

12 Mortal Men

Where I'm from There's poverty All kinds of inequality Nobody comes here Nobody leaves Don't have to go far Even to see The Whipping Report In the l...

In my movie

If you were in my movie I'd have you as the doctor Small black bag And a big black coat I'd have you make a house call To the woman You could l...

If i were a weapon

If I were a weapon you said I'd be a gun lethal at close range i guess with silencer and stun but I feel more like a needle always pulling on th...

Institution Green

Institution green The walls are cracked and dim And we are standing in a line Waiting for our faces to be seen Institution green Watch the floor and...

It makes me wonder

The virgin mary on a chain has hit me in the mouth again as we explore the carnal score of sacred and profane Sulky boy won't drink his milk mot...

It Hit Home

No one admits they ever cry in public Lately we all do because we must We do because a man stands at The bottom of a building Looking for his brot...

99.9F

99.9 Fahrenheit degrees Stable now, with rising possibilities It could be normal but it isn't quite Could make you want to stay awake at night Yo...

Angel's doorway

Angel comes home His clothes in a cloud Of the dust and the dirt and destruction She waits inside She knows he's arrived She feels this with no...

Blood makes noise

I'd like to help you doctor Yes I really really would But the din in my head It's too much and it's no good I'm standing in a windy tunnel Shouti...

Anniversary

Fall and all attendant memories Crowd the day with unrelated histories Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies To hang around each corner Hang...

As a child

As a child You have a doll You see this doll Sitting in her chair You watch her face Her knees apart Her eyes of glass In a secretive stare...

Big space

He said you stand in your own shoes I said I'd rather stand in someone else's He said you look from your direction I said I like to keep perspectiv...

Jacob And The Angel

The angel came to Jacob The room began to glow Jacob asked the angel Are you friend or are you foe? The angel never answered But smote him on th...

Birth Day (Love Made Real)

one thing I know this pain will go step through all that's left to feel I wait to meet my love made real don't move don't touch don't talk so much...

Bad wisdom

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong Cause my body has strange information He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child But he doesn't da...

As Girls Go

You make a really good girl As girls go Still kind of look like a guy I never thought to wonder why If I could pull this off Would I know for certai...

Tombstone

I like a tombstone cause it weathers well and if it stands or if it crumbles only time will tell if you carve my name in marble you must cut it...

China Doll

A pistol shot at 5 o'clock The bells of heaven ring Tell me what you've done it for No, I won't tell you a thing Yesterday, I begged you Before...

Blood Sings

When blood sees blood Of its own It sings to see itself again It sings to hear the voice it's known It sings to recognize the face One body split and...

Black Widow Station

I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting for your train. I am at your halfway station darling and I've been waiting for your train....

Carson's Last Supper

I love the world Sometimes it loves me The love of my life Is humanity The rich and the poor The broken and whole All come together Feeding th...

Feather and Bone

you said, come with me and so I did I thought I could take all your sorrow I thought I could hold it all I never imagined your oceans so bitter the ki...

Carson's Blues

A wounded, sparrow Timid and shy A fallen deer, that's what they call me But I'm an iron butterfly A childish liar A devilish bitch I can be innocent...

Cassidy

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream Ah, child of countless trees Ah, ch...

I Never Wear White

I never wear white White is for virgins Children in summer Brides in the park. My color is black black black Black is for secrets Outlaws and d...

Casual Match

I only turned to see What hand had set this inner field alight Against the flame I see The outline of a man against a night Take back your sympathy I...

Daddy Is White

Tweet I am an average white girl who comes from Upper Manhattan. And I am totally white, but I was raised half Latin. This caused me some problems...

Crack In The Wall

A crack appeared inside a wall, A door sprang up around it. Each of these so finely drawn I could not believe I found it. A wildish wind blew it...

Cracking

It's a one time thing It just happens A lot Walk with me And we will see What we have got Ah... My footsteps are ticking Like water dripping...

Daniella

Daniella, she sits by the tree in the playground sometimes we go there and the children all play But no one can tell me just where is Daniella when sh...

Unbound

I knew a plant Whose roots were bound And returned Into the ground Every day I watched it grow Every day It struggled so Roots were bound ro...

Gypsy

You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Wh...

Undertow

I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole I would leave only bones and teeth We could see what was underneath And you would be free the...

Headshots

The sign said "Headshots" And that was all, A picture of a boy And a number you could call, Two eyes in the shade A mouth so sad and small, It's...

Instant Of The Hour After

That's enough. Out of you. Tonight. My darling. This show is over for now. The monkey is dead. I detest all this drunken brawling. Now let's se...

Widow's Walk

Consider me a widow, boys and I will tell you why. It's not the man, but it's the marriage that was drowned. So I walk the walk and wait with watchfu...

When Heroes Go Down

When heroes go down They go down fast So don't expect any time to Equivocate the past When heroes go down They land in flame So don't expect any slow...

Don't Uncork What You Can't Contain

A man finds a bottle on the bottom shelf Forgotten and covered in dust The label is already half worn off Still, open it up he must. As the corks...

Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through)

Too hot. No air. Loud fan and a big tin can. Wait here. Steer clear. They've gone to get your man. 10 AM. Through gate 3 with picture ID. This old bi...

Wooden Horse

I came out of the darkness Holding one thing A small white wooden horse I'd been holding inside And when I'm dead If you could tell them this That wh...

We of me

My squeezed heart divides into two wide wings World is a sodden place if you don't belong to any thing Noha may have got it wrong chause there's one...

Ironbound Fancy Poultry

In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut...

Just Friends

We're friends, that's all we are and that's all we will become It's understood we're only friends And it's better that way for everyone concerned So i...

In The Eye

If you were to kill me now right here I would still look you in the eye And I would burn myself into your memory as long as you were still alive I w...

In Liverpool

In Liverpool On Sunday No traffic On the avenue The light is pale and thin Like you No sound, down In this part of town Except for the boy in...

Annemarie

I saw your face I'd knew you'd haunt me For all... of my life Rising above me If you could want me, I'd be No man's wife Everyone sees you Everyone k...

Rosemary

Do you remember how you walked with me down the street into the square? How the women selling rosemary pressed the branches to your chest, promise...

Private Goes Public

Smile no smile On this face today Jerk like a thing on a string And go join the parade Code will keep your privacy in It won't help to win friends In...

Knight moves

Watch while the queen In one false move Turns herself into a pawn Sleepy and shaken And watching while the blury night Turns into a very clear d...

As you are now

I will take up all your tears Salty tissues through the years Spread them in the sun to dry Diamonds from each time you cry I will treasure all y...

Lightning

Lightning struck a while ago And it's blazing much too fast But give it rain of waiting time And it will surely pass Blow over And it's happening so...

Language

If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be These words are too solid T...

Ludlow street

Love is the only thing that matters. Love is the only thing that's real. I know we hear this every day. It's still the hardest thing to feel. Thi...

Lover, Beloved

Lover Beloved Behold each of these The lover pursues The beloved one of Lees Lover Beloved From countries apart Each one alone In the land of the hea...

Men In A War

Men in a war If they've lost a limb Still feel that limb As they did before He lay on a cot He was drenched in a sweat He was mute and staring But fe...

Men Will Be Men

Men will be men and they'll call me the governor I'll walk through the bar and I'll buy the next round Because this is my ship and I say it's my desti...

Last Year's Troubles

Last year's troubles are so old fashioned the robber on the highway the pirate on the seas maybe it's the clothing that's so entertaining the earrings...

Marlene on the wall

Even if I am in love with you All this to say, what's it to you? Observe the blood, the rose tattoo Of the fingerprints on me from you Other...

Laying On Of Hands/Stoic 2

Mother Theresa understood the laying on of hands What I often wonder is how she kept from hearing love's demands If in her loneliness she ever dream...

Lolita

Lolita Almost grown Lolita Go on home Hey girl Don't be a dog all your life Don't beg for Some little crumb of affection Don't try To be so...

Left of center

If you want me You can find me Left of center Off of the strip In the outskirts In the fringes In the corner Out of the grip When they ask m...

Calypso

My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew...

Book & A Cover

What's that they told you about a book & a cover? Don't judge so quickly, Is it too much too remember? 'Cause pictures lie, you know. I'll show it...

Book of dreams

In my book of dreams In my book of dreams In my book of dreams I took your urgent whisper Stole the arc of a white wing Rode like foam on the r...

Zephyr And I

Zephyr & I stand out on West End Avenue Talking about the things that All of us used to do And the wind kicks up with the smell of rain...

Your maggie may

I'll never be your Maggie May the one you loved and left behind the face you see in light of day and then you cast away that isn't me in that bed...

Brother Mine

Sonny boy, you need new sneakers Better go into town and get then Friday night Come to think of it, kid, you need just about everything But I think th...

World before columbus

If your love were taken from me Every color would be black and white It would be as flat as the world before Columbus That's the day that I lose ha...

Bound

The way of the world Has taken its toll Ravaged my body And bitten my soul I am ruined by rain Weathered by wind I've been invaded Without and...

Luka

My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes, I think you've seen me before If you hear something late at night...

My favorite plum

My favorite plum hangs so far from me See how it sleeps and hear how it calls to me See how the flesh presses the skin, It must be bursting wit...

Rusted Pipe

Now the time has come to speak I was not able And water through a rusted pipe Could make the sense that I do Gurgle, mutter Hiss, stutter Moan the wo...

Rock In This Pocket

Excuse me If I may Turn your attention My way One moment I won't plead It isn't much It's what I need And what's so small to you Is so large to me If...

Salt Water

Tide came in And then went out And left behind In hollow places Cradled once And cooling twice You feel the sting of Salt water Wave goes back And l...

Room Off The Street

Somewhere in a room With a poster on a wall Of a man with his hand In a fist Is a woman who's drinking And her dress is so tight You can see every br...

Not me

I said, I am a little girl he said, you never were I said, I am not ready he said, then tell me when you are I said, I am too young for this he said,...

Silver Bridge

My heart is full today For the recently departed Of sorrow and of sympathy Into that land uncharted The old man turned away from me The stairway...

New York Is A Woman

New York City spread herself before you With her bangles and her spangles and her stars You were impressed with the city so undressed You had to go ou...

Neighborhood Girls

"We had our Neighborhood girl, she Used to hang out, in front of McKinsey's Bar, and we were Interested in her, and her Clientele... We just wonder wh...

Now I Am An Arsonist

I was just an acrobat, high above the street Pointing at the ground the empty sky beneath my feet The perfect fall, no one could tell at all That i...

No cheap thrill

Ante up. And don't be shy. Who is that man who is catching my eye? What's underneath all of the deadpan face? Sitting so pretty with a criminal gra...

Night Song

It's 2 o'clock this morning every sane person is asleep I wonder where you are tonight and down whose hallways do you creep I know you, you're out som...

Night vision

By day give thanks By night beware Half the world in sweetness The other in fear When the darkness takes you With her hand across your face Don...

One World (For One World One Voice)

We're all in one white field We thought there was no end Walking as the field went dry What did we do then? We're all in one white place Burning ever...

New York Is My Destination

New York is my destination New York is where I will be from New York is made for grander things Just Like Me I will lunch at the Algonquin Swing by t...

Penitent

Once I stood alone so proud held myself above the crowd now i am low on the ground. From here i look around to see what avenues belong to me I c...

Priscilla

She'd come to my house and dance in the hall with the music up loud against the light on the wall I danced beside her feeling no shame we were...

Pilgrimage

This line is burning Turning to ash as it hits the air Every step is a day in the week It's a Sunday or Monday A march over months of the year This l...

Song of sand

If sand waves were sound waves What song would be in the air now What stinging tune Could split this endless noon And make the sky swell with rain...

Pornoghrapher's Dream

She's a pornographer's dream, he said. I knew what he meant. But it made me imagine: what kind of a dream He would have, that hadn't been spent? Woul...

Portrait Of The Knight Of Wands

He stood upon the last Bastions of the place Looked out on the ruins With thunder in his face An introverted spectacle In the flowers on the roc...

Predictions

Let's tell the future Let's see how it's been done. By numbers. By mirrors. By water. By dots made at random on paper. By salt. By dice. By meal. By...

Some Journey

If I had met you on some journey Where would we be now If we had met some eastbound train Through some black sleeping town Would you have worn your s...

Small Blue Thing

Today I am A small blue thing Like a marble Or an eye With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round I am watching you I am cold against your s...

Soap and water

Soap and water take the day from my hand scrub the salt from my stinging skin slip me loose of this wedding band Soap and water hang my heart on...

Solitaire

Black on the red and the red on the black. It's a tic of a tired mind. Come and sit down, won't you try your luck. See if you unwind. Never use your...

So Long, Marianne

Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read your palm. I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy Before I let you take me h...

Solitude standing

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late a...

Song In Red And Grey

The reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face made me wonder just how she could know of that something that happened between you and me so much...

Song Of The Stoic

I am a man I've been working all my days This is my accounting Of my means and of my ways More years are behind me now Than years that are ahead...

St. Clare

call on that saint and the candle that burns keeping her safe until her return plaster and paint holding the fire a poor woman's saint holding all m...

Straight lines

There's a sound Across the alley Of cold metal Touching skin And you can see If you look in her window That she has gone and cut Her hair agai...

The Boulevardiers

I like you and you like him and he likes me and we all love each other. We like to sit in the cafe and eat and drink and talk all day and watch the su...

The Ballad Of Miss Amelia

On any southern afternoon If anyone would care to look A face appears inside a house A terrible face it is sexless and white It is dim like the faces...

Stockings

I don't care for tights, she says and does not tell me why She hikes her skirt above her knee revealing one brown thigh I see, I say, and wonder...

Thin Man

He is not my friend, but he is with me Like a shadow is with a foot that falls His hand is on my back when I step from the sidewalk Or when I'm walkin...

The Queen and the Soldier

The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before A...

The Silver Lady

When I was a little girl Younger than nine or ten I once spoke to the Silver Lady But I never saw her again. To me she flew out of the sky She was bo...

Tired of sleeping

Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad It's just that there's so much to do And I'm tired of sleeping Oh Mom, the old man is telling me something His...

The Man Who Played God

Think about the world you know Now think of where it wants to go All things you can see around you You can change them Rearrange them in your min...

The Rent Song

I am sitting by my window; I am thinking of my rent. I am looking through my pockets, and I'm wondering where it went. I am feeling like the Devil, ma...

Those whole girls

Those whole girls Hurl down words Run in packs With bloom to spare They know health Know it well Skim the cream And fill the brim Drip with...

Machine Ballerina

Am I an afternoon's pastime? a thing on a string to be thrown and retrieved like a phone call received on somebody's birthday to tease and delight and...

The Marching Dream

I have dreamed that many men Have marched across this field I have wished that I could take each man And hold him against the flame in my heart I had...

Tom's Diner

I am sitting In the morning At the diner On the corner I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he fills it...