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the mockingbird his wife, the painter on the sidewalk and in the sun the elephants of Vietnam dark night poem the last days of the suicide kid tabby cat metamorphosis a poem is a city a smile to remember a free 25-page booklet they, all of them, know a future congressman eulogy the drowning fooling Marie (the poem) the young man on the bus stop bench for they had things to say harbor freeway south schoolyards of forever in the lobby sex something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you … blue beads and bones like a cherry seed in the throat turnabout the girl outside the supermarket it is not much 2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen The Japanese Wife the harder you try the lady in red the shower i was glad the angel who pushed his wheelchair a time to remember the wrong way no wonder a threat to my immortality my telephone Carson McCullers Mongolian coasts shining in light putrefaction where was Jane? something about a woman Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission trashcan lives school days grass crucifix in a deathhand the screw-game millionaires when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away the talkers art advice for some young man in the year 2064 a.d. ice for the eagles girl in a miniskirt reading the Bible outside my window hell is a lonely place the girls and the birds 1813–1883 no leaders, please song one for Sherwood Anderson bow wow love the day the epileptic spoke when Hugo Wolf went mad— in a neighborhood of murder the strangest sight you ever did see— the 2nd novel junk Mademoiselle from Armentières now society should realize … the souls of dead animals the tragedy of the leaves the loner The Genius of the Crowd German bar the snow of Italy for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough: notice for Jane eulogy to a hell of a dame was Li Po wrong? the night I saw George Raft in Vegas I am eaten by butterflies the veryest man mowing the lawn across the way from me