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"Comes the time when it's later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill," |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Wicker Basket (l. 1-3). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"There are very huge stars, man, in the sky," |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. A Wicker Basket (l. 21). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"Oh lovely lady, morning or evening or afternoon.
Oh lovely lady, eating with or without a spoon.
Oh most lovely lady, whether dressed or undressed or partly.
Oh most lovely lady, getting up or going to bed or sitting only." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 40-43). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"And I will wear what dresses I choose!
And I will dance, and what's to lose!
I'm free of you, you little prick,
and I'm the one can make it stick." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 29-32). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"Oh come home soon, I write to her.
Go screw yourself, is her answer.
Now what is that, for Christian word?
I hope she feeds on dried goose turd." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 9-12). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (l. 1-4). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"Dead. Died. Will die. Want.
Morning, midnight. I asked you
if you were going to get a pet
what kind of animal would you get." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. If You (l. 13-16). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. I Know a Man (l. 8-12). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"I will go to the garden.
I will be a romantic. I will sell
myself in hell,
in heaven also I will be." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Door (l. 77-80). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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"Mighty magic is a mother,
in her there is another issue
of fixture, repeated form, the race renewal,
the charge of the command." |
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Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Door (l. 25-28). . .
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.
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