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When you hear me singing
you get the rifle down
and the flashlight, aiming for my brain,
but you always miss and when you set out the poison
I piss on it
to warn the others.
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
In restaurants we argue
over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is
whether or not I will make you immortal.
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
I am the horizon
you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso I am also what surrounds you:
my brain
scattered with your
tincans, bones, empty shells,
the litter of your invasions. I am the space you desecrate
as you pass through.
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
Your righteous eyes, your laconic
trigger-fingers
people the streets with villains:
as you move, the air in front of you
blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic
trail of desolation:
beer bottles
slaughtered by the side
of the road, bird-
skulls bleaching in the sunset.
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)