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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Publisher's Note | |
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| Walt Whitman | |
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| Prologue: Voices From Outlaw Heaven | |
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| Poem To The Freaks | |
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| Soul Eyes | |
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| Sitting on a Bench Near TSQuare | |
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| In the Event of My Demise | |
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| Mein Kampf | |
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| American Renegades | |
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| Wild Thing | |
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| Rabbit Man | |
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| 1989 cont./Gorilla in the Midst #6 | |
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| From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Part 3) | |
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| From Cleveland Undercovers | |
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| From Suburban Monastery Death Poem | |
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| The Bells of Cherokee Ponies | |
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| The suburban prophets (for R.D.D.) | |
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| Poem for Beverly | |
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| Reality Jew (1964) | |
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| From Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions | |
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| Revolutionary Letter #1 | |
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| Revolutionary Letter #4 | |
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| Revolutionary Letter #12 | |
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| Revolutionary Letter #29 | |
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| Revolutionary Letter #36 | |
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| Tracking Bob Dylan | |
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| Wanted Man | |
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| Jesse James and His Boys | |
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| Jesus Christ | |
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| In a Suburb of Thebes | |
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| Night and Fog (San Francisco) | |
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| The Shower Scene in Psycho | |
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| Bagel Shop Jazz | |
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| I, Too, Know What I Am Not | |
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| Would You Wear My Eyes? | |
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| To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room | |
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| Jail Poems 1-34 | |
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| Abomunist Manifesto | |
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| Short Speech to My Friends | |
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| How to Proceed in the Arts | |
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| On Jackson Pollock | |
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| (Untitled) | |
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| Ballad of a Bad Boy | |
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| Libya | |
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| Babelogue | |
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| High on Rebellion | |
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| Notebook | |
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| Notes for the Future: August 2, 1998, New York City | |
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| Notes, New York City, 1976 | |
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| Ode to a Tijuana Toilet | |
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| 9th and Hennepin | |
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| Beauty Is Everywhere Beaudelaire | |
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| Hiding Places | |
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| On Franz Kline | |
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| Warren Finnerty Riding a Bicycle on 4th Avenue at Midnight Dreaming of Love and Wine and Franz Kline | |
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| Stone of the Heart | |
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| Blues Poem | |
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| One Arm | |
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| Poem to the Seventeenth of November 1962 | |
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| Rambling Jack (a biography) | |
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| Chasing Kerouac's Shadow | |
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| On Henry Miller | |
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| A Poem in Prose for My Venus | |
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| Advice to a Young Writer | |
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| The Shortest Novel of Them All | |
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| From a letter to Jim Scully, December 1994 | |
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| From The Blood About the Heart | |
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| Europe | |
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| The Recognition #2 | |
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| NY, NY | |
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| Haiti | |
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| Buy, Always Consume (by Ferruccio Brugnaro, translated by Jack Hirschman) | |
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| Home | |
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| Act (by Roque Dalton, translated by Jack Hirschman) | |
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| An Essay on William Carlos Williams | |
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| We Bumped off Your Friend the Poet | |
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| I'm Not a Man | |
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| The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet | |
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| William Carlos Williams | |
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| Classic Frieze in a Garage | |
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| Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness | |
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| At the Cafe Trieste | |
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| Dream of Frank O'Hara | |
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| Letter to Harold Norse, February 14th, 1957 | |
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| Ten Outlaw Heroes | |
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| 241st Chorus | |
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| 149th Chorus | |
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| 211th Chorus | |
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| Adventures in Auto-eroticism | |
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| Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High ... | |
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| Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror | |
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| Dear Villon | |
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| Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway | |
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| Greenwich Village Suicide | |
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| C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization, Eat More Grease | |
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| Letter to William Carlos Williams, February 23, 1957 | |
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| Letter to William Carlos Williams, October 4, 1958 | |
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| Letter to Harold Norse, August 26, 1960 | |
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| South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 | |
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| From Devoured by Myths, an interview with Sylvere Lotringer | |
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| I Begin to Feel | |
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| The Evening News | |
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| "My Legs Senor." | |
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| Cold Lost Marbles | |
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| A Non-Christian on Sunday | |
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| The Bride Goes Wild | |
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| In His Own Words | |
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| Puerto Rican Obituary | |
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| Telephone Booth number 301 | |
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| Telephone Booth number 507 | |
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| Telephone Booth number 898 1/2 | |
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| Telephone Booth number 63765057 | |
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| Telephone Booth number 542 | |
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| Telephone Booth number 32439 | |
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| The Galilee Hitch-Hiker | |
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| Bike Messenger Leading the People | |
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| Women Are Hungry | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| An Oliver Stone Movie | |
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| From Song of the Open Road, parts 1 and 2 | |
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| Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico | |
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| These Are My Words, My Neon, Siliconed, Carcinogenic Words. But This Is My Poem, My Poem About Elvis | |
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| Bus | |
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| House of Strangers | |
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| Who Are We? | |
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| The Saddest Man on Earth | |
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| On Reading Whitman's Song of Myself at One O'Clock in the Morning | |
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| Across the Mississippi | |
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| Let Us | |
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| The Crucifixion of Johnny Carson | |
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| Slamdancing to the Blues | |
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| Blasted Youth | |
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| Satan After Hours | |
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| Thief of Fire | |
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| The Night of the Living Tits | |
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| Why Rimbaud Went to Africa | |
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| From The Exploding Parable | |
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| From Clay Man High House Head | |
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| From What I Have Learned About Boxing | |
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| From the Doomsday Bonnet, #16, #27 | |
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| Slammers | |
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| The Slam | |
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| Lucky Strike No Strike Back | |
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| The Stroke | |
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| Skinhead | |
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| Medusa | |
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| Debt of Blood | |
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| The Outlaw | |
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| Welcome To McDonalds | |
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| My Life as I Remember It | |
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| In the Hands of the Enemy | |
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| Lineage | |
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| Logic in the House of Sawed-off Telescopes | |
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| Siamese Opposites | |
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| Check One | |
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| I'm an Emotional Idiot | |
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| Scab Maids on Speed | |
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| Jenny's Shirt | |
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| Like Lilly Like Wilson | |
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| William, I Giggled with Your Girlfriend | |
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| Project Princess | |
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| Imagining America | |
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| Mandela | |
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| It's a Good Day | |
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| Chicks Up Front | |
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| The Scalping | |
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| American Renegades | |
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| An American Poem | |
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| Holes | |
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| I Always Put My Pussy ... | |
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| Malcolm | |
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| Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette | |
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| First Date with the D.J. | |
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| For Brandon Teena | |
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| Sailor | |
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| Evolution | |
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| From Tomorrow | |
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| What Is a Jew? | |
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| How to Score | |
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| To Come | |
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| Africa | |
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| I Told You I Like Indians | |
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| Subway Poem | |
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| In the Eye of the Beholder | |
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| Words | |
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| Two Horses | |
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| The Crippled Artist | |
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| Global Inequalities | |
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| The Heavy Headed Dance | |
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| Barney Rosset and The Evergreen Review | |
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| Ernest Hemingway | |
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| The Little Sons of Fidel | |
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| If my Enemy is A Clown, A Natural Born Clown | |
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| To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger" | |
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| Rosalie Has Candles | |
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| Somebody Was Breaking Windows | |
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| Chota | |
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| Believe Me When I Say ... | |
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| Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park | |
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| Don't Read That Poem! | |
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| It's Dumb to be a Member of a Dominant Species | |
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| For Seattle Boy Sacred Mantle | |
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| From I Am in Danger Nowhere in This World | |
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| Van Gogh | |
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| Sick Art | |
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| Art | |
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| Death | |
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| The Fortune Cookie Man | |
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| To Woody Woodpecker | |
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| Rejected Mafia Nicknames | |
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| Disappointment | |
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| What Kind of Cars They Drove | |
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| Just Go Fuck Yourself | |
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| This Mind Is Buddah | |
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| Tozan's Pretzels | |
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| We Have Chocolate Pudding | |
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| What Is the Beautiful? | |
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| The Scattering of the Ashes: The Burial of a Poet | |
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| Seekin's the Cause | |
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| Twice a Month Is Mother's Day | |
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| Poem--Miguel Pinero | |
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| A Mongo Affair | |
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| Ode to My Mother | |
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| A Wish Come True | |
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| Much Ado About Nothing | |
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| Reasons to Drink | |
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| Molecular Conspiracy | |
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| Playing the Game | |
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| Some Profession | |
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| Brother | |
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| Imago | |
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| Note to Lorca | |
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| A Poem for Jesse | |
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| On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa. | |
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| Prophecy | |
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| Children in the Shelter | |
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| Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh | |
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| Georgetown Poems (7) | |
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| Culture | |
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| Story | |
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| Psalm XVI | |
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| A chipped black hole | |
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| In the Vicinity of a Grocer | |
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| Lungs of Glass | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Opos | |
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| Boxed City | |
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| First and Last FearPoem | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Gravity | |
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| Testimony | |
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| At the End | |
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| From Beat Thing | |
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| From The Eyes, The Blood | |
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| Compensation Portrait | |
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| Incomplete Directions | |
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| The Saxophone Factory | |
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| The Bones #2 | |
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| James Dean | |
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| Meat Poets | |
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| The Mimeo Revolution | |
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| A Bukowski Writing Lesson | |
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| Thinking About Then and Now | |
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| The System | |
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| Poem for the Working Man and the Upper Mobile Yuppie | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Certain Prostitute | |
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| Poem for Paulie | |
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| Frozen Alley | |
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| Jailhouse Dreams #1 | |
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| Dead Kid | |
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| No Rain Sunday Morning | |
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| Round Up | |
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| From Machine Gun | |
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| A Threat | |
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| Termination | |
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| Aboard the Bounty | |
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| Land of a Thousand Dances | |
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| Beyond B.F. Skinner | |
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| Paul Cezanne: Self Portrait, 1875 | |
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| Paul Cezanne: The Large Bathers, 1906 | |
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| On Marvin Malone and The Wormwood Review | |
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| Ten Commandments for How to Successfully Publish a Little Magazine | |
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| American Renegades | |
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| The American Night | |
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| LAmerica | |
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| From Resume | |
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| Punk Rock Royalty | |
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| Video Violence | |
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| Montecito | |
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| On 115 | |
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| City Madness | |
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| From Martin XIV | |
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| Chopped Scooter | |
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| The Kid | |
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| Geometry | |
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| Song to Fidel (translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston) | |
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| What Is A Saint | |
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| Disguises | |
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| Turtle Blues | |
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| An Aging Radical Muses on His Conjugal Visits | |
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| Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog | |
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| Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul | |
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| Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee Shop | |
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| Man in Harbor Coffee Shop | |
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| 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain | |
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| Facts | |
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| Jukebox | |
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| The Ocean Below | |
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| With van Gogh | |
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| Rimbaud Sees the Dentist | |
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| School Prayer for the 80's | |
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| The New America | |
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| Great Moments in the History of Capitalism | |
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| Where Is My Wandering Jew | |
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| Paint It Red (and Black) | |
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| The Babarians | |
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| This Is the Babarians | |
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| Lost My Job and Wrote This Poem | |
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| Poetry in Orange County | |
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| In the Bookstore | |
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| Gregory | |
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| The Wino, The Junkie, and The Lord | |
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| I'm Not Mad | |
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| The Real Me | |
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| I Was with Her Long Enough To Change Brands of Cigarettes | |
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| The Living Legend | |
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| On Long Shot | |
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| It's About the End of the World Stupid | |
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| America | |
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| Dear Ezra | |
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| As for Us | |
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| (some) people have enough problems | |
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| Mal de Tete | |
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| American Renegades | |
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| Homage to Hersch | |
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| From High on the Beats | |
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| Wail Bar Night | |
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| Mad Dogs of Trieste | |
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| The Woman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor | |
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| New York Guy in Berlin Night | |
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| Career Move | |
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| Murdered in the Middle of the Dance | |
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| Elsie John | |
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| Path | |
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| Just Say NO to Family Values | |
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| Electronic Multimedia Shamanism | |
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| Letter to Caliban | |
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| From Songs of the Revolution | |
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| Leaflet for Soldiers | |
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| Poem in the Manner of Paul Blackburn | |
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| First Lady | |
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| Marilyn Monroe Is Dead | |
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| Barbie | |
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| You Fucking Cunt | |
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| Billie and Satchmo | |
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| Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont | |
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| Ball and Chain Record Store | |
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| Asteroid Poem #15 | |
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| Pact | |
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| For Madeline Gleason | |
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| Was Poe Afraid? | |
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| Cool Hobohemians 1950's Bennies from Heaven Poem | |
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| Displaced Poet | |
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| The states | |
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| In Memorian: Charles Mingus | |
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| For Frank | |
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| From Bones | |
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| Collaborating with Kerouac | |
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| Hey, Jack! | |
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| Jack Kerouac Returns to Lowell after 25 Years | |
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| The Door for Love and Death | |
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| Untitled | |
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| The Suicide Room | |
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| Love Is the Silence | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Venice West | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Memoirs of a Nun of Fire | |
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| Skull | |
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| 7th Sound for John Garfield | |
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| Untitled | |
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| You'll Despise Me for This, But I'm Going to Say It Anyway | |
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| Venice | |
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| Invocation | |
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| and sometimes it all hangs crooked | |
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| Ritual | |
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| The Carma Bums | |
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| The Carma Bums (Because This Is What America's All About) | |
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| Cartoons Are My Life | |
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| I Ate Fig Newtons Until I Puked | |
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| America Poem | |
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| There Is a River | |
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| Sunset Strip Self-Improvement Affirmations | |
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| No Mercy | |
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| I Am the Bomb | |
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| The Word | |
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| American Renegades | |
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| The San Francisco Oracle: A Brief History | |
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| The God I Worship Is a Lion | |
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| Jesus I Am Sick of the Spiritual Warfare! | |
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| After the Cries of the Birds Has Stopped | |
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| Characteristically | |
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| In Transit | |
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| Seed Pods | |
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| Astromancy | |
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| Manifesto for Mutants | |
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| My Life | |
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| Downtown Woman | |
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| Ten Commandments of a Street Poet | |
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| Bukowski Poem | |
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| Handcuffs | |
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| From Slave Sonnet #1 | |
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| From Slave Sonnet #7 | |
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| From Slave Sonnet #10 | |
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| The Wedding of Everything | |
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| This Is the Land of Missed Opportunity | |
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| Suzanne Goes Down | |
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| On Prison Poetry | |
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| To Those | |
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| Sing Sing Sits Up The River | |
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| After All Those Years | |
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| Fugitive | |
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| My Room | |
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| Lap 15512 | |
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| My Father | |
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| Trapped | |
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| The Unbearables | |
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| Introduction to The Unbearables | |
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| Archaeology | |
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| Dead Louis | |
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| Factory Still Life | |
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| Kurt Cobain | |
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| God Is Here | |
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| Moral | |
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| The Bus Driver's Secret Song | |
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| Orgasm | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Q/A | |
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| Write a fucking poem | |
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| Slave | |
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| Them | |
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| The Professional | |
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| Cafe Ennui | |
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| Panoplistic Traditions in Memphis | |
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| Yardbirds of Vermont | |
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| Manhattan | |
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| Thursday Night in the Park | |
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| Business District | |
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| Spanish Girls | |
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| Mendel's Law | |
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| I Want the Nobel Prize | |
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| Teeth and Totemism | |
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| Untitled | |
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| Red Snappers | |
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| Poets To Come | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |