Common Sense. Ted Greenwald

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      Common Sense

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      Common Sense

      Ted Greenwald

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 1978 Ted Greenwald

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First Wesleyan University Press edition 2016

      Originally published in 1978 by L Publications

      Some of these poems appeared in the following magazines: Adventures in Poetry, Angel Hair, Another World (Bobbs-Merrill), Big Sky, Blue Pig, The Human Handkerchief, Lapstrake (Lines Books), The Life (Big Sky Books), Lines, Making a Living (Adventures in Poetry), Miami (Doones Press), The Midatlantic Review, Native Land (Titanic Books), The New Money (Blue Pig #19, Sand Project Press), New York Times, Ocultist Witness, Paris Review, Park Row, Roof, Shirt (Doones Press), Short Sleeves (Buffalo Press), Sun, This, WB, The World.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015956640

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7642-2

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7643-9

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover illustration: George Schneeman, Untitled (Exploding Cigars) (1986), collage, 6 inches diam. Used by permission Katie Schneeman and courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.

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      CONTENTS

       Whiff 11

       Fog Rolled In 15

       P.S. 16

       Airy Rushes Punch 20

       Bleep 21

       For Ted, On Election Day 23

       And, Hinges 26

       Stop For 28

       Note To A Dumb Friend 29

       The/Skeleton 31

       Pore Suspension 32

       Privets Come Into Season At High Tide 33

       The/Form 35

       Miami 36

       Quick 38

       His/(The 40

       Detonator 41

       Radio Crop 45

       Dew, Discrepancy 46

       A Thought 48

       I Hear A Step 49

       Fat Lines, Turn 51

       Tracer 52

       Four Days of Books And High Fever 54

       I Forgot To Remember 55

       Transformational Grammar 57

       Lapstrake 58

       Common Sense 60

       Something Nice Happened 61

       One/Thing 62

       We Pass Slowly 63

       Jiggles 64

       Elegance And Umbrellas 65

       Comb 68

       Fatty 69

       Making A Living 71

       Zero Hour 74

       A Man Was On A Hill 75

       Mister Tree’s Manual 76

       For Laffs 78

       Straight On Bearing Left 79

       Standard Air 80

       Prime Meat Clouds 83

       Looks Like A Busy Week 84

       To

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