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...Taut, thick fingers punch
the teeth of my typewriter.
Three words are down on paper
 in capitals:
SPRING
 SPRING
 SPRING...
And me -- poet, proofreader,
the man who's forced to read
two thousand bad lines
 every day
 for two liras--
why,
 since spring
 has come, am I
 still sitting here
 like a ragged 
 black chair?
My head puts on its cap by itself,
 I fly out of the printer's,
 I'm on the street.
The lead dirt of the composing room
 on my fac...Read more of this...

...s of Milwaukee and Buffalo,

the whole U.S.,
its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

He died on the road,
his heart pushed from neck to back,
his white hanky signaling from the window of the Cadillac.

My husband,
as blue-eyed as a picture book, sells wool:
boxes of card waste, laps and rovings he can pull

to the thread
and say Leicester, Rambouillet, Merino,
a half-blood, it's greasy and thick, yellow as old sn...Read more of this...

...would not weep, if Atticus were he?

What though my name stood rubric on the walls,
Or plaister'd posts, with claps, in capitals?
Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load,
On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
I sought no homage from the race that write;
I kept, like Asian monarchs, from their sight:
Poems I heeded (now berhym'd so long)
No more than thou, great George! a birthday song.
I ne'er with wits or witlings pass'd my days,
To spread about the itch of verse and p...Read more of this...

...oloch! Light streaming out of the sky!
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river!
Dreams! adorations! ill...Read more of this...

...ing deeper in my dream, I see
A mighty city covering the isle
They call Manhattan, equal in her state 
To all the older capitals of earth, --
The gateway city of a golden world, --
A city girt with masts, and crowned with spires, 
And swarming with a host of busy men, 
While to her open door across the bay 
The ships of all the nations flock like doves. 
My name will be remembered there, for men 
Will say, "This river and this isle were found 
By Henry Hudson, on his way to s...Read more of this...

...ases makes
No difference at all.

"Then, if you'd be impressive,
Remember what I say,
The abstract qualities begin
With capitals alway:
The True, the Good, the Beautiful,
These are the things that pay!

"Next, when you are describing
A shape, or sound, or tint,
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things
With a sort of mental squint."

"For instance, if I wished, Sir,
Of mutton-pies to tell,
Should I say 'Dreams of fleecy flocks
Pent ...Read more of this...

...iling in and out, are ours—and we over all, 
Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles—the capitals, 
The forty millions of people—O bard! in life and death supreme, 
We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
Not for the present alone, for a thousand years, chanting through you, 
This song to the soul of one poor little child. 

CHILD.
O my father, I like not the houses; 
They will never to me be anything—nor do I like money; 
B...Read more of this...

...e as your final legacy
A box double-locked by the spider
Packed with your unsolved problems"?

How say all this without capitals,
Italics, anger or pathos,
To those who have seen from the womb come
Enemies? How not say it?...Read more of this...

...ine-snared trees fell down in files.
Pioneer angels cleared the way
For a Congo paradise, for babes at play,
For sacred capitals, for temples clean.
Gone were the skull-faced witch-men lean.
There, where the wild ghost-gods had wailed
In a rather high key -- as delicately as possible.
A million boats of the angels sailed
With oars of silver, and prows of blue
And silken pennants that the sun shone through.
'Twas a land transfigured, 'twas a new creation.
Oh, a singing wind sw...Read more of this...

...uard strewing the Belgian plain; 
 'Tis the lone island in th' Atlantic main: 
 To-morrow! 'tis the grave! 
 
 Into capitals subdued 
 Thou mayst ride with gallant rein, 
 Cut the knots of civil feud 
 With the trenchant steel in twain; 
 With thine edicts barricade 
 Haughty Thames' o'er-freighted trade; 
 Fickle Victory's self enthrall, 
 Captive to thy trumpet call; 
 Burst the stoutest gates asunder; 
 Leave the names of brightest wonder, 
 Pale and dim, beh...Read more of this...

...onze standing rigid, lest the skies fall. 

What a job they've got to keep it up. 
Their poor, idealist foreheads naked capitals 
To the entablature of clouded heaven. 

When the skies are going to fall, fall they will 
In a great chute and rush of d?b?cle downwards. 

Oh and I wish the high and super-gothic heavens would come down now, 
The heavens above, that we yearn to and aspire to. 

I do not yearn, nor aspire, for I am a blind Samson. 
And what is daylight to me that I...Read more of this...

...
 Whilst scarce distinguished in the black profound, 
 Stairs, aqueducts, great pillars, gleamed around, 
 And ruined capitals: then was seen a group 
 Of granite elephants 'neath a dome to stoop, 
 Shapeless, giant forms to view arise, 
 Monsters around, the spawn of hideous ties! 
 Then hanging gardens, with flowers and galleries: 
 O'er vast fountains bending grew ebon-trees; 
 Temples, where seated on their rich tiled thrones, 
 Bull-headed idols shone in jasper ...Read more of this...

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