Long Mexico city Poems

I'M TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE I'M ALWAYS AFRAID SUFFERING SEVERE PANIC DISORDER I TRY AND FOCUS MY MIND HURT MY EYES ARE SWOLLEN PANTING PANIC ATTACKS AGAIN THE NURSES ARE KIND RIGHT AWAY I...

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Hello CRYSTALSKY*.                                 ...

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Tell her you saw me ...

Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...

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tell her you saw me ...

tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its...

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A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was held captive El...

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HE READ WHAT WOULD BE CALLED THE 
"ROLL CALL OF CHAMPIONS"
THE COMPANY NAMES THAT COMPRISE
THE TALUS, AND THE SANCTIONING BODIES
THAT RECOGNIZED THE TALUS CHAMPION AS
THE PREMIER CHAMPION IN WRESTLING
THE PRESTIGE OF HOLDING THE MOST
PRESIGESES PRIZE...

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Ken Mattingly is mad
about being cut from the Apollo 13 crew -
now no one will see his zero-gravity backflip
until a later time, by then no one will care.
Tom Hank’s Luna capsule spins out of control;
ever...

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Let's not saunter to Saturn this evening
Or amble across to the moon
If we ramble up there in a rocket
We won't get there any time soon

I'd rather we didn't dawdle to Denmark
Or dilly-dally our way to...

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July 1983, another phone call after midnight, 
another long drive, your Shepherd-dog head 
in my lap. How many people got lost that summer!

Late March 1986, by flashlight on dirt paths 
of The Divide. Mine shafts...

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Plan A:
Build the wall high build it strong and thick.
Made of the strongest mortar and brick.
but leave the door open.
To vent evil out and keep goodness in.
I think the real problem exists.
With the Mexican government.
For...

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Pictures at an Exhibition

I recently saw the ghosts of beat poet visionaries
staring lonely, from pictures at an exhibition
Ginsburg, Corso, Snyder, Kerouac, and Cassady
the murderer’s row of the desolation angels line-up
smoking cigarettes on dingy New York...

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for Mexico City after earthquake, 1985

It's almost total dark tonight, before 
a moon in our Green Valley. No buildings
collapsed. I'm just walking my dog—

and I'm back there. Storefront spilling
shattered glass can't glitter in so little...

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