Table of Contents
Foreword Rachel Zucker xv
Note from the Editor xxiii
1940s
Rep Gordon Canfield 3
We leave the youthful pennants and the books 4
A Night in the Village 5
Epitaph for a Suicide 8
Epitaph for a Poet 9
Song 10
To live and deal with life as if it were a stone 11
Behold! The Swinging Swan 12
1950s
Her Engagement 15
Hitch-Hiking Key West 16
In a Red Bar 17
What's buzzing 18
Thus on a Long Bus Ride 19
We rode on a lonely bus 20
There's nobody here 21
On Nixon; Chain Poem 22
Dawn 23
A Lion Met America 25
Leave the Bones Behind 26
The Real Distinguished Thing 27
1960s
To Frank O'Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch 31
Yesterday I was writing in Heaven or of Heaven 33
Ayahuasca- 35
Walt Whitman 36
Tokyo Tower 37
B.C. [Bob Greeley] 38
War Is Black Magic 39
Journals November 22, '63 40
May Day 41
In a Shaking Hand 43
Little Flower M.M. [Marianne Moore] 47
Don't Know Who I Am 49
Liverpool Muse 50
New York to San Fran 52
Entering Kansas City High 79
Cleveland Airport 82
Busted 83
Nashville April 8 85
After Wales Visitacione July 29 1967 86
Mabillon Noctambules 90
Genocide 93
No Money, No War 95
1970s
May King's Prophecy 99
For The Soul of the Planet Is Wakening 101
Six Senses 102
Frank O'Hara darkly 104
Hum! Hum! Hum! 105
The world's an illusion 106
Reef Mantra 107
Postcard to D 108
Inscribed In George Whitman's Guest Register 109
On Farm 111
Wyoming 112
Exorcism 113
Eyes Full of Pitchpine Smoke 116
Freedom of Speech 117
Green Notebook 118
Imagination 119
Spring night four a.m. 121
Louis' First Night In Grave 123
Kidneystone Opium Traum 127
Homage to Paris at the Bottom of the Barrel 128
Bebbe put me on your lap 130
Verses Included In Howl Reading Boston City Hall 131
All The Things I've Got to Do 133
No Way Back to the Past 136
A Brief Praise of Anne's Affairs 141
Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death 144
For School Kids in New Jersey 149
1980s
Second Spontaneous Collaboration Into the Air, Circa 23 May 1980 153
A Tall Student 155
Good God I got high bloodpressure answering 156
Amnesiac Thirst For Fame 157
A knock, look in the mirror 159
The Black Man 160
Thundering Undies 162
Trungpa Lectures 164
Pinsk After Dark 165
Two Scenes 166
Listening to Susan Sontag 167
You Want Money? 169
Cats Scratching 171
I used to live in gay sad Paris! 172
As the rain drips from the glitter on to the bushes of the imperial court lawn 173
Having bowed down my forehead on the pavement on Central Park West 174
Far Away 175
Back to Wuppertal 176
Am I a Spy From the Moon? 177
Awakened at dawn trying to run away 178
Grey clouds hang over 179
1/29/84 N.Y.C. 180
CXXV 182
Rose Is Gone 183
3'd day down Yangtze River, yesterday 185
African Spirituality Will Save the Earth 186
Face to Face 188
Who's Gone? 189
Bob Dylan Touring with Grateful Dead 191
1990s
Asia Minor for Gregory 195
The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon 197
New Years Greeting 198
Hermaphrodite Market 199
Last Conversation with Carl or In Memoriam 200
Dream of Carl Solomon 206
Acknowledgments 207
Notes 211
Notes on the Photographs 235
Index of Titles and First Lines 237
