[New-Poetry] Corso, The Last Beat

[Michael Snider]

I used to love Corso's "Marriage" -- I aven't read it in years and
Ithink I'll have to climb to the attic to find it tonight.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:22 AM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
> *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:
>>
>>    All the more reason to celebrate I hate poetry month.
>>
>>    jforjames at aol.com <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>        It appears a film about Gregory Corso is coming out soon.
>>        Featuring Eathan Hawke among others.
>>        http://www.corsothefilm.com/newschool/
>>
>>        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.
>>
>>        Finnegan
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