Sotère Torregian

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Forget us: alpine flowers deer
I wasn't to last for long
Forget us beards escorted by dogs
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"Sooner or later we'll all get to speak like Ted Berrigan"
A donkey might consider itself a white stallion
and the ear-phones oft the desert
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Once again, I've missed Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Which, as it is, isn't
broadcast in Papiamento, myself being the Centurion
of the English where I am
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It's all in a day's work the door from Life to Death
Muhammed Ali comes in one door and Russ Meyer comes in
t' uther While Ali
Stages a CONFAB at 11.00 AM but doesn't
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Ice on the underhanded lilies cakewalk
Underground, in the garage caverns of Galatian eocene
gift of the man in the panther-skin
trailed by detectives of the fanfare aboveworld
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Shepherd him milk & sugar
12 o'clock among unicorns
time of blue veils
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Sotère Torregian is an American poet, born in Newark, New Jersey on June 25, 1941. He attended Rutgers University, and taught briefly at the Free University of New York and Stanford University, where he helped establish the Afro-American studies program in 1969. In the mid-1960s he was associated with the New York School of poets. At that time he proposed a kind of American “orthodox Surrealism” (following the dictates of André Breton), based on “reinterpretations of surrealist stands on Revolutionary perspectives in art, poetry, and theology.” He presently resides in Stockton, California.)

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Last Day On The Job

Forget us: alpine flowers deer
I wasn't to last for long
Forget us beards escorted by dogs
coming out of the white portals for exercise
Send her back to California with his eyes
says the kind old Good Humor Man
Send YOU to Robespière's Thermidor
where your last day of fire a mountain
of children that come up to you & say
I don't remember meeting you Goodbye
fatal hour matrons Third Avenue
And unseen indescriminant princesses who shatter
wine bottles on the lumespento traffic lights
Catshit cloud overhead while you're king
of pencil-sharpeners!

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