[New-Poetry] Corso, The Last Beat

[James Cervantes]

My favorite line: "Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust-"
And the one about "Pie glue"

- Jim

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org> wrote:
>
> 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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> >> --
> >> Anny Ballardini
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