[New-Poetry] Corso, The Last Beat

Tue May 19 11:04:19 EDT 2009

that would be "furnished room" if I weren't lost on a keyboard

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snider
<mandolin at mikesnider.org> wrote:
> 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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