October 2011
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T.M.
she lived in Galveston and was into T.M. and I went down to visit her and we made love continually even though it was very warm weather and we took mescalin and we took the ferry to the island and drove 200 miles to the nearest racetrack. we both won and sat in a redneck bar— disliked and distrusted by the natives— and then we went to a redneck motel and came back a day or two later and I stayed...
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problems about the other women
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my place “because that other woman has been there,” and I said, “all right, all right, what will we do?”
she had come in from the north and was looking for a place to stay meanwhile roomed with her girlfriend, and...
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blue cheese and chili peppers
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar along her belly. there’s the other who writes poems and phones at 3 a.m., saying, “I love you.” there’s the one who dances with a boa constrictor and writes every four weeks, she’ll come, she says. and the 4th who claims she sleeps always with my latest book under...
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an almost made up poem
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the fountain is in France where you wrote me that last letter and I answered and never heard from you again. you used to write insane poems about ANGELS AND GOD, all in upper case, and you knew famous artists and most of them were your lovers, and I wrote back, it’s all right, go ahead,...
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moaning and groaning
she writes : you’ll be moaning and groan- ing in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week. I know you. she writes on to say that my vibe machine was right— she had just fucked a third guy but she knows I don’t want to hear who, why or how. she closes her letter, “Love.”
rats and roaches have triumphed again. here it comes running with a slug in its mouth,...