Ted Berrigan Poems

Mountains of twine and
Teeth braced against it
Before gray walls. Feet walk
Released by night (which is not to imply
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'A little loving can solve a lot of things'
She locates two spatial equivalents in
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It's 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn it's the 26th of July
and it's probably 8:54 in Manhattan but I'm
in Brooklyn I'm eating English muffins and drinking
Pepsi and I'm thinking of how Brooklyn is
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wake up
smoke pot
see the cat
love my wife
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If you stroke a cat about 1,000,000 times, you will
generate enough electricity to light up the largest
American Flag in the world for about one minute.
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Here comes the man! He's talking a lot
I'm sitting, by myself. I've got
A ticket to ride. Outside is, 'Out to lunch.'
It's no great pleasure, being on the make.
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The pregnant waitress asks
'Would you like
some more coffee?'
Surprised out of the question
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It's important not
to back out
of the mirror:
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When see(k)ing sky you're left with sky, then
'we kill ourselves to propagate our kinde'-We sleep
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ripped
out of her mind
a marvelous construction
thinking
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