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sexta-feira, setembro 11, 2009

Beat (7)

The Mad Yak - a poem by Gregory Corso

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?
That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap.
And that idiot student of his--
I never saw that muffler before.
Poor uncle, he lets them load him.
How sad he is, how tired!
I wonder what they'll do with his bones?
And that beautiful tail!
How many shoelaces will they make of that!

domingo, fevereiro 15, 2009

Beat (2)

"I Am 25" - a poem by Gregory Corso

With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaudand
the needy-yap of my youth
has gone from ear to ear:
I HATE OLD POETMEN!
Especially old poetmen who retract
who consult other old poetmen
who speak their youth in whispers,
saying:--I did those then
but that was then
that was then-
O I would quiet old men
say to them:--I am your friend
what you once were, thru me
you'll be again
--Then at night in the confidence of their homes
rip out their apology-tongues
and steal their poems.