1 I shot off his left ear
2 then his right,
3 and then tore off his belt buckle
4 with hot lead,
5 and then
6 I shot off everything that counts
7 and when he bent over
8 to pick up his drawers
9 and his marbles
10 (poor critter)
11 I fixed it so he wouldn't have
12 to straighten up
13 no more.
14 Ho Hum.
15 I went in for a fast snort
16 and one guy seemed
17 to be looking at me sideways,
18 and that's how he died---
19 sideways,
20 lookin' at me
21 and clutchin'
22 for his marbles.
23 Sight o' blood made me kinda
24 hungry.
25 Had a ham sandwich.
26 Played a couple of sentimental songs ...
27 Shot out all the lights
28 and strolled outside.
29 Didn't seem to be no one around
30 so I shot my horse
31 (poor critter).
32 Then I saw the Sheerf
33 a standin' at the end a' the road
34 and he was shakin'
35 like he had the Saint Vitus dance;
36 it was a real sorrowful sight
37 so I slowed him to a quiver
38 with the first slug
39 and mercifully stiffened him
40 with the second.
41 Then I laid on my back awhile
42 and I shot out the stars one by one
43 and then
44 I shot out the moon
45 and then I walked around
46 and shot out every light
47 in town,
48 and pretty soon it began to get dark
49 real dark
50 the way I like it;
51 just can't stand to sleep
52 with no light shinin'
53 on my face.
54 I laid down and dreamt
55 I was a little boy again
56 a playin' with my toy six-shooter
57 and winnin' all the marble games,
58 and when I woke up
59 my guns was gone
60 and I was all bound hand and foot
61 just like somebody
62 was scared a me
63 and they was slippin'
64 a noose around my ugly neck
65 just as if they
66 meant to hang me,
67 and some guy was pinnin'
68 a real pretty sign
69 on my shirt:
70 there's a law for you
71 and a law for me
72 and a law that hangs
73 from the foot of a tree.
74 Well, pretty poetry always did
75 make my eyes water
76 and can you believe it
77 all the women was cryin'
78 and though they was moanin'
79 other men's names
80 I just know they was cryin'
81 for me (poor critters)
82 and though I'd slept with all a them,
83 I'd forgotten
84 in all the big excitement
85 to tell 'em my name
86 and all the men looked angry
87 but I guess it was because the kids
88 was all being impolite
89 and a throwin' tin cans at me,
90 but I told 'em not to worry
91 because their aim was bad anyhow
92 not a boy there looked like he'd turn
93 into a man---
94 90% homosexuals, the lot of them,
95 and some guy shouted
96 "let's send him to hell!"
97 and with a jerk I was dancin'
98 my last dance,
99 but I swung out wide
100 and spit in the bartender's eye
101 and stared down
102 into Nellie Adam's breasts,
103 and my mouth watered again.
Do livro "The days run away like..."
20070603
Sandra
1 is the slim tall
2 ear-ringed
3 bedroom damsel
4 dressed in a long
5 gown
6 she's always high
7 in heels
8 spirit
9 pills
10 booze
11 Sandra leans out of
12 her chair
13 leans toward
14 Glendale
15 I wait for her head
16 to hit the closet
17 doorknob
18 as she attempts to
19 light
20 a new cigarette on an
21 almost burnt-out
22 one
23 at 32 she likes
24 young neat
25 unscratched boys
26 with faces like the bottoms
27 of new saucers
28 she has proclaimed as much
29 to me
30 has brought her prizes
31 over for me to view:
32 silent blonde zeros of young
33 flesh
34 who
35 a) sit
36 b) stand
37 c) talk
38 at her command
39 sometimes she brings one
40 sometimes two
41 sometimes three
42 for me to
43 view
44 Sandra looks very good in
45 long gowns
46 Sandra could probably break
47 a man's heart
48 I hope she finds
49 one.
Do livro "Love is a dog from Hell".
2 ear-ringed
3 bedroom damsel
4 dressed in a long
5 gown
6 she's always high
7 in heels
8 spirit
9 pills
10 booze
11 Sandra leans out of
12 her chair
13 leans toward
14 Glendale
15 I wait for her head
16 to hit the closet
17 doorknob
18 as she attempts to
19 light
20 a new cigarette on an
21 almost burnt-out
22 one
23 at 32 she likes
24 young neat
25 unscratched boys
26 with faces like the bottoms
27 of new saucers
28 she has proclaimed as much
29 to me
30 has brought her prizes
31 over for me to view:
32 silent blonde zeros of young
33 flesh
34 who
35 a) sit
36 b) stand
37 c) talk
38 at her command
39 sometimes she brings one
40 sometimes two
41 sometimes three
42 for me to
43 view
44 Sandra looks very good in
45 long gowns
46 Sandra could probably break
47 a man's heart
48 I hope she finds
49 one.
Do livro "Love is a dog from Hell".
some of my readers
1 I liked it coming out of that expensive
2 cafe in Germany
3 that rainy night
4 some of the ladies had learned that I
5 was in there
6 and as I walked out well-fed and
7 intoxicated
8 the ladies waved
9 placards
10 and screamed at me
11 but all I recognized was my
12 name.
13 I asked a German friend what they were
14 saying.
15 "they hate you," he told me,
16 "they belong to the German Female
17 Liberation Movement ..."
18 I stood and watched them, they were
19 beautiful and screaming, I
20 loved them all, I laughed, waved,
21 blew them kisses.
22 then my friend, my publisher and my
23 girlfriend got me into the car; the
24 engine started, the windshield wipers
25 began thrashing
26 and as we drove off in the rain
27 I looked back
28 watched them standing in that
29 terrible weather
30 waving their placards and their
31 fists.
32 it was nice to be recognized
33 in the country of my birth, that
34 was what mattered
35 most ...
36 back at the hotel room
37 opening bottles of wine
38 with my friends
39 I missed them,
40 those angry wet
41 passionate ladies
42 of the night.
Do livro "War all the time".
2 cafe in Germany
3 that rainy night
4 some of the ladies had learned that I
5 was in there
6 and as I walked out well-fed and
7 intoxicated
8 the ladies waved
9 placards
10 and screamed at me
11 but all I recognized was my
12 name.
13 I asked a German friend what they were
14 saying.
15 "they hate you," he told me,
16 "they belong to the German Female
17 Liberation Movement ..."
18 I stood and watched them, they were
19 beautiful and screaming, I
20 loved them all, I laughed, waved,
21 blew them kisses.
22 then my friend, my publisher and my
23 girlfriend got me into the car; the
24 engine started, the windshield wipers
25 began thrashing
26 and as we drove off in the rain
27 I looked back
28 watched them standing in that
29 terrible weather
30 waving their placards and their
31 fists.
32 it was nice to be recognized
33 in the country of my birth, that
34 was what mattered
35 most ...
36 back at the hotel room
37 opening bottles of wine
38 with my friends
39 I missed them,
40 those angry wet
41 passionate ladies
42 of the night.
Do livro "War all the time".
20070602
1 night has come like something crawling
2 up the bannister, sticking out its tongue
3 of fire, and I remember the
4 missionaries up to their knees in muck
5 retreating across the beautiful blue river
6 and the machine gun slugs flicking spots of
7 fountain and Jones drunk on the shore
8 saying shit shit these Indians
9 where'd they get the fire power?
10 and I went in to see Maria
11 and she said, do you think they'll attack,
12 do you think they'll come across the river?
13 afraid to die? I asked her, and she said
14 who isn't?
15 and I went to the medicine cabinet
16 and poured a tall glassful, and I said
17 we've made 22,000 dollars in 3 months building roads
18 for Jones and you have to die a little
19 to make it that fast ... Do you think the communists
20 started this? she asked, do you think it's the communists?
21 and I said, will you stop being a neurotic bitch.
22 these small countries rise because they are getting
23 their pockets filled from both sides ... and she
24 looked at me with that beautiful schoolgirl idiocy
25 and she walked out, it was getting dark but I let her go,
26 you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to
27 keep her,
28 and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow,
29 so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other,
30 so I sat there and put the drink down and made another
31 and I thought, whoever thought an engineering course at Old Miss
32 would bring you where the lamps swing slowly
33 in the green of some far night?
34 and Jones came in with his arm around her blue waist
35 and she had been drinking too, and I walked up and said,
36 man and wife? and that made her angry for if a woman can't
37 get you by the nuts and squeeze, she's done,
38 and I poured another tall one, and
39 I said, you 2 may not realize it
40 but we're not going to get out of here alive.
41 we drank the rest of the night.
42 you could hear, if you were real still,
43 the water coming down between the god trees,
44 and the roads we had built
45 you could hear animals crossing them
46 and the Indians, savage fools with some savage cross to bear.
47 and finally there was the last look in the mirror
48 as the drunken lovers hugged
49 and I walked out and lifted a piece of straw
50 from the roof of the hut
51 then snapped the lighter, and I
52 watched the flames crawl, like hungry mice
53 up the thin brown stalks, it was slow but it was
54 real, and then not real, something like an opera,
55 and then I walked down toward the machine gun sounds,
56 the same river, and the moon looked across at me
57 and in the path I saw a small snake, just a small one,
58 looked like a rattler, but it couldn't be a rattler,
59 and it was scared seeing me, and I grabbed it behind the neck
60 before it could coil and I held it then
61 its little body curled around my wrist
62 like a finger of love and all the trees looked with eyes
63 and I put my mouth to its mouth
64 and love was lightning and remembrance,
65 dead communists, dead fascists, dead democrats, dead gods and
66 back in what was left of the hut Jones
67 had his dead black arm around her dead blue waist.
Do livro "The early selected poems, 1946-1966".
2 up the bannister, sticking out its tongue
3 of fire, and I remember the
4 missionaries up to their knees in muck
5 retreating across the beautiful blue river
6 and the machine gun slugs flicking spots of
7 fountain and Jones drunk on the shore
8 saying shit shit these Indians
9 where'd they get the fire power?
10 and I went in to see Maria
11 and she said, do you think they'll attack,
12 do you think they'll come across the river?
13 afraid to die? I asked her, and she said
14 who isn't?
15 and I went to the medicine cabinet
16 and poured a tall glassful, and I said
17 we've made 22,000 dollars in 3 months building roads
18 for Jones and you have to die a little
19 to make it that fast ... Do you think the communists
20 started this? she asked, do you think it's the communists?
21 and I said, will you stop being a neurotic bitch.
22 these small countries rise because they are getting
23 their pockets filled from both sides ... and she
24 looked at me with that beautiful schoolgirl idiocy
25 and she walked out, it was getting dark but I let her go,
26 you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to
27 keep her,
28 and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow,
29 so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other,
30 so I sat there and put the drink down and made another
31 and I thought, whoever thought an engineering course at Old Miss
32 would bring you where the lamps swing slowly
33 in the green of some far night?
34 and Jones came in with his arm around her blue waist
35 and she had been drinking too, and I walked up and said,
36 man and wife? and that made her angry for if a woman can't
37 get you by the nuts and squeeze, she's done,
38 and I poured another tall one, and
39 I said, you 2 may not realize it
40 but we're not going to get out of here alive.
41 we drank the rest of the night.
42 you could hear, if you were real still,
43 the water coming down between the god trees,
44 and the roads we had built
45 you could hear animals crossing them
46 and the Indians, savage fools with some savage cross to bear.
47 and finally there was the last look in the mirror
48 as the drunken lovers hugged
49 and I walked out and lifted a piece of straw
50 from the roof of the hut
51 then snapped the lighter, and I
52 watched the flames crawl, like hungry mice
53 up the thin brown stalks, it was slow but it was
54 real, and then not real, something like an opera,
55 and then I walked down toward the machine gun sounds,
56 the same river, and the moon looked across at me
57 and in the path I saw a small snake, just a small one,
58 looked like a rattler, but it couldn't be a rattler,
59 and it was scared seeing me, and I grabbed it behind the neck
60 before it could coil and I held it then
61 its little body curled around my wrist
62 like a finger of love and all the trees looked with eyes
63 and I put my mouth to its mouth
64 and love was lightning and remembrance,
65 dead communists, dead fascists, dead democrats, dead gods and
66 back in what was left of the hut Jones
67 had his dead black arm around her dead blue waist.
Do livro "The early selected poems, 1946-1966".
God's man
1 we were 10 or 11 years old
2 when we went to see the
3 priest.
4 we knocked.
5 a fat, frumpy woman
6 answered the door.
7 "yes?" she asked.
8 "we want to see the
9 priest," one of us
10 said.
11 I think it was Frank
12 who said
13 it.
14 "Father," the woman
15 turned her head,
16 "some boys want to
17 see you."
18 "tell them to come
19 in," said the
20 priest.
21 "follow me," said the
22 fat, frumpy lady.
23 we followed her.
24 the priest was in his
25 study.
26 he was behind his
27 desk.
28 he pushed some papers
29 aside.
30 "yes, boys?"
31 the lady left the
32 room.
33 "well," I said.
34 "well," said Frank.
35 "yes, boys, go ahead ..."
36 "well," said Frank, "we
37 wondered if God was
38 really there."
39 the Father smiled.
40 "but, of course, He
41 is."
42 "but where is He?"
43 I asked.
44 "haven't you boys
45 studied your catechism?
46 God is Everywhere."
47 "oh," said Frank.
48 "thank you, Father,
49 we just wanted to
50 know," I said.
51 "it's quite all right,
52 boys, I'm glad you
53 asked."
54 "thank you, Father,"
55 said Frank.
56 we both did little
57 bows, then
58 turned
59 and walked out of
60 the room.
61 the fat, frumpy lady
62 was waiting.
63 she led us down the
64 hall and to the
65 door.
66 we walked along the
67 street.
68 "I wonder if he's
69 fucking her?" Frank
70 asked.
71 I looked around for God,
72 then answered,
73 "of course, he isn't."
74 "but what does he do
75 when he gets
76 excited?"
77 asked Frank.
78 "he probably prays,"
79 I said.
80 "it's not the same
81 thing," said Frank.
82 "he has God," I said,
83 "he doesn't need
84 that."
85 "I think he's fucking
86 her," said Frank.
87 "oh yeah?"
88 "yeah.
89 why don't we go back
90 and ask him?"
91 "you go back and ask
92 him," I said. "you're
93 the one who's
94 curious.
95 "I'm afraid to,"
96 said Frank.
97 "you're afraid of God,"
98 I said.
99 "well, aren't you?"
100 he asked.
101 "sure."
102 we stopped then at a
103 red light, waiting for
104 traffic.
105 neither of us had been
106 to Mass for
107 months.
108 it was boring.
109 it was more fun
110 talking to the
111 priest.
112 the light changed and
113 we crossed
114 over.
2 when we went to see the
3 priest.
4 we knocked.
5 a fat, frumpy woman
6 answered the door.
7 "yes?" she asked.
8 "we want to see the
9 priest," one of us
10 said.
11 I think it was Frank
12 who said
13 it.
14 "Father," the woman
15 turned her head,
16 "some boys want to
17 see you."
18 "tell them to come
19 in," said the
20 priest.
21 "follow me," said the
22 fat, frumpy lady.
23 we followed her.
24 the priest was in his
25 study.
26 he was behind his
27 desk.
28 he pushed some papers
29 aside.
30 "yes, boys?"
31 the lady left the
32 room.
33 "well," I said.
34 "well," said Frank.
35 "yes, boys, go ahead ..."
36 "well," said Frank, "we
37 wondered if God was
38 really there."
39 the Father smiled.
40 "but, of course, He
41 is."
42 "but where is He?"
43 I asked.
44 "haven't you boys
45 studied your catechism?
46 God is Everywhere."
47 "oh," said Frank.
48 "thank you, Father,
49 we just wanted to
50 know," I said.
51 "it's quite all right,
52 boys, I'm glad you
53 asked."
54 "thank you, Father,"
55 said Frank.
56 we both did little
57 bows, then
58 turned
59 and walked out of
60 the room.
61 the fat, frumpy lady
62 was waiting.
63 she led us down the
64 hall and to the
65 door.
66 we walked along the
67 street.
68 "I wonder if he's
69 fucking her?" Frank
70 asked.
71 I looked around for God,
72 then answered,
73 "of course, he isn't."
74 "but what does he do
75 when he gets
76 excited?"
77 asked Frank.
78 "he probably prays,"
79 I said.
80 "it's not the same
81 thing," said Frank.
82 "he has God," I said,
83 "he doesn't need
84 that."
85 "I think he's fucking
86 her," said Frank.
87 "oh yeah?"
88 "yeah.
89 why don't we go back
90 and ask him?"
91 "you go back and ask
92 him," I said. "you're
93 the one who's
94 curious.
95 "I'm afraid to,"
96 said Frank.
97 "you're afraid of God,"
98 I said.
99 "well, aren't you?"
100 he asked.
101 "sure."
102 we stopped then at a
103 red light, waiting for
104 traffic.
105 neither of us had been
106 to Mass for
107 months.
108 it was boring.
109 it was more fun
110 talking to the
111 priest.
112 the light changed and
113 we crossed
114 over.
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