[New-Poetry] Corso, The Last Beat

[TheOldMole]

*Some of It

*
       Robert Frost, as rewritten by Gregory Corso
           

I just figured out
that for ten years now
the universe has been my job
I drove a cab through the trash-strewn streets of New York
looking for multitudes to smash
but when I honked my horn all that came back
was its own goddam mocking echo

I ran it off some cliff across in the Adirondacks
and as I hurtled toward the rocky lake
I cried out Life! Life! Life! and all I wanted back
was not some goddam echo
but a girl waif with stringy hair
shouting Death! Death! across the seat
while I kept screaming Life! Life! not because I meant it
just to keep the dialogue going
looking for love in contradiction.

 

If I had a girl, I'd drive off a cliff with her
crash into the scree on the other side,
splash into the rotting water
I'd let her swim for a while
but that might prove me too human

maybe I'd rut her like a great buck
pushing the crumpled water with my stallion fury
and land pouring like a waterfall
and stumble through the rocks with horny tread,
and leave her as I hit the underbrush
and that would be all.



Anny Ballardini wrote:
> mumble mumble mumble...
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:36 AM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org 
> <mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org>> wrote:
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>     All the more reason to celebrate I hate poetry month.
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>     jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
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>         It appears a film about Gregory Corso is coming out soon.
>         Featuring Eathan Hawke among others.
>         http://www.corsothefilm.com/newschool/
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>         With recent film on Charles Olson, "Polis is This," and Marsen
>         Hartley documentary, and Jane Campion's
>         non-biopic on John Keats, it looks like poets are a new hot genre.
>
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