Poems

Footnote to Howl Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! […]

Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the street, a bird perched […]

Haiku (Never Published) Drinking my tea Without sugar- No difference. The sparrow shits upside down –ah! my brain & eggs Mayan head in a Pacific driftwood […]

Homework Homage to Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I’d wash my dirty Iran I’d throw in my United States, and pour on the […]

Hospital Window At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke ribbons past Chrysler Building’s silver fins tapering delicately needletopped, Empire State’s taller antenna filmed milky lit […]

Howl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an […]

Hum Bom! Whom bomb? We bomb’d them! Whom bomb? We bomb’d them! Whom bomb? We bomb’d them! Whom bomb? We bomb’d them! Whom bomb? We bomb […]

In Back of the Real railroad yard in San Jose I wandered desolate in front of a tank factory and sat on a bench near the […]

In the Baggage Room at Greyhound I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for […]

Kraj Majales (King of May) And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and lying policemen and the Capitalists proffer Napalm and […]