[New-Poetry] Corso, The Last Beat

Tue May 19 11:03:26 EDT 2009

yeah - and when he's the only unmarried man in the universe, "all
alone in a firnished room with pee-stains on my underwear"

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:55 AM, James Cervantes
<cervantes.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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