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Ice Handler by Carl Sandburg
I KNOW an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with
pearl buttons the size of a dollar,
And he lu..
I Sang by Carl Sandburg
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless free-hearted
free-thro..
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" by Billy Collins
And I start wondering how they came to be blind.
If it was congenital, they could be brothers and s..
I Go Back To The House For A Book by Billy Collins
I turn around on the gravel
and go back to the house for a book,
something to read at the doctor’s..
Invention by Billy Collins
Tonight the moon is a cracker,
with a bite out of it
floating in the night,
and in a week or so..
I Ask You by Billy Collins
What scene would I want to be enveloped in
more than this one,
an ordinary night at the kitchen ta..
Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear again..
In The Baggage Room At Greyhound by Allen Ginsberg
I
In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal
sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky..
In Back Of The Real by Allen Ginsberg
railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
..
into the strenuous briefness by E. E. Cummings
into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April
darkness, friends
i charge laughin..
if i have made,my lady,intricate by E. E. Cummings
if i have made,my lady,intricate
imperfect various things chiefly which wrong
your eyes(frailer th..
If you can't eat you got to by E. E. Cummings
If you can’t eat you got to
smoke and we aint got
nothing to smoke:come on kid
let’s go to sl..
if there are any heavens my mother will by E. E. Cummings
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor
..
if I should sleep with a lady called death by E. E. Cummings
if I should sleep with a lady called death
get another man with firmer lips
to take your new mouth..
I Am A Beggar Always by E. E. Cummings
i am a beggar always
who begs in your mind
(slightly smiling, patient, unspeaking
with a sign o..
i go to this window by E. E. Cummings
i go to this window
just as day dissolves
when it is twilight(and
looking up in fear
i see t..
i sing of Olaf glad and big by E. E. Cummings
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i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or
..
if everything happens that can't be done by E. E. Cummings
if everything happens that can’t be done
(and anything’s righter
than books
could plan)
the stup..
it is at moments after I have dreamed by E. E. Cummings
it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
when(being fool to f..
in a middle of a room by E. E. Cummings
in a middle of a room
stands a suicide
sniffing a Paper rose
smiling to a self
"somewhere it i..
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