Rm. 127

by admin on August 29, 2010

Rm 127

I remember looking out this place long ago

watching the sun set salmon on the buildings across the way;

the wrought iron sunflowers still grow

time passes so fast and so slow.

The old radiators still clank

I’m still pissing in the sink

won’t be writing Sad Eyed or Stella Blue

just sitting here wondering if I ever loved you.

I remember staying up all night long

watching pretty girls on the side of crosstown busses

a Hermes Rocket the hotel glass

and a pile of writing stacking up like bills.

I felt alone, I couldn’t take it,

I’d fill my heart lines and fake it;

Walt Whitman’s trunk in the flood

he got outta here– like I should.

Chelsea Hotel

this isn’t heaven

and this ain’t hell.

I remember looking out this place long ago

watching the sun set salmon on the buildings across the way;

the wrought iron sunflowers still grow

time passes so fast and so slow.

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Ask

by admin on June 2, 2010

Why do you want
to solve life’s riddle?
Rest in the bosom
of the mystery
a woman you love
more than you
understand
a woman
more than you
will ever
understand.

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Rebirth

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out of the shower where i rejoiced
the bath of the cleansing
of the whole day coming
through the holes in this handed-down
decrepit crown
which is my prayer and respect
like those to the grass i smoke
i make it my own and proud–
but then all washed away
my own gone on the dirt
of the day down the drain
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Peter Orlovsky July 8th, 1933 – May 30th, 2010

May 31, 2010

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heart of green

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closed caption music…
a bunch of notes
i read on the screen
deaf to yer beauty
when first i heard your moon sing
and your crescent smile shine
through your sunny skin
now this plasma scream
abyss
not to dis your beautiful blacks
but its time i turn my back
follow the dream in my ears
ringing the prelude of deafness
everybody has ambition
like a number tattoo.

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Osip Mandelstam Poem From The TLS

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The Times Literary Supplement is one of my favorite book reviews. They do a poem every week, often from their archives. This first appeared in the TLS in 1971 and is translated by Max Hayward and Jon Stallworthy. The poem is introduced by Andrew McCulloch; to read his introduction, go here.
A Poem
I [...]

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