Full Description
"Life Policy" - "Lit by the light of one lamp, with clarinet backdrop and ashtray, you pitch safety and comfortable Futures. Your neighborhood shows as you trace the map, ruffle the bills and conjure up scarcity. Everybody's doing it, you say, Hopeful. Take your big dreams, I say through the back door, no one here can sing fate or pick up that dime, anymore. We left crossroads back there with compromise, one nation two hundred miseries and all that commotion. Your dreams are just words like table salt. Me I know this year's moment will be 2 a.m., my life savings and one train ticket down the fault line."
Contents
Preface
Imagination Verses
Home World
From a Distance I Can See
I am Depressed without Your Pencil Too
Night Train to Domestic Living Arrangements
Not on My Seashore
Ode on the End
Bi-coastal Fleshings
Fin de Siècle Go-betweens
The Wingèd Words
Ode on the Son
Ten Still Petals
Underlying Assumptions
After First Figure
Studio Life
Club Life
Helena & the Regional Boys
Into the Bedroom
The Removal of Enlightenment Safeguards
During this Revolution
Ode to Protest
The Ballad of Her rePossession
Firstly
Secondly
Thirdly
Fourthly
Finally
Ode to the Man in the Mire of Babylon
When in Rome
Cell #103
The Right to Counsel
The Right to Remain Silent
Life Policy
The Nuptial Life
Kalypso Facto
Muse Couplings
Neither Fish Nor Foul
Dear J
Cast of Shadows
Duet #1 Wordsworth
Duet # 2 Keats
The Bad Choices Spy on Us Girls
Wake
The Waver in the Orbit of Uranus Becomes Unexplainable
Ode on the Particle
Three Graces
Anthony
Paul
Steve
Today my mind became an elegy...
Lucky So and So
Though Crowded
Once Over
Line of Descent
Ode to Grief
Ten Prolegomena to Heartbreak
Wreath of a Similar Year
