Gregory Corso Sad 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. Humanity
What simple profundities
What profound simplicities
To sit down among the trees
and breathe with them
... - 3. 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
... - 4. 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
... - 5. Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday
a slow thoughtful spontaneous poem
I am 32 years old
... - 6. 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??
... - 7. 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
... - 8. 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
... - 9. The Mad Yak
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me.
They are waiting for me to die;
They want to make buttons out of my bones.
Where are my sisters and brothers?
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