Gregory Corso Death Poems
- 1. The American Way
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I am a great American
I am almost nationalistic about it!
I love America like a madness!
... - 2. Gregory Corso
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
... - 3. Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem
Thereâ??s a truth limits man
A truth prevents his going any farther
The world is changing
The world knows itâ??s changing
... - 4. I Held A Shelley Manuscript
My hands did numb to beauty
as they reached into Death and tightened!
O sovereign was my touch
... - 5. 1959
Uncomprising yearâ??I see no meaning to life.
Though this abled self is here nonetheless,
either in trade gold or grammaticness,
I drop the wheelwrightâ??s simple principleâ??
... - 6. Bomb
niverse Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt the jawbone of an ass
The bumpy club of One Million B.C. the mace the flail the axe
Catapult Da Vinci tomahawk Cochise flintlock Kidd dagger Rathbone
... - 7. The Whole Mess... Almost
I ran up six flights of stairs
to my small furnished room
opened the window
and began throwing out
... - 8. America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity
O this political air so heavy with the bells
and motors of a slow night, and no place to rest
but rain to walkâ??How it rings the Washington streets!
The umbrellaâ??d congressmen; the rapping tires
... - 9. Elegiac Feelings American
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How inseparable you and the America you saw yet was never
there to see; you and America, like the tree and the
ground, are one the same; yet how like a palm tree
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