WE WERE THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK NEWSWe were the eleven o’clock newsbecause while the rest of the worldwas going to hell we made love.THE AMELIA EARHART PANCAKEI have been unable to find a poemfor this title. I’ve spent yearslooking for one and now I’m givingup.November 3, 1970THE LAST SURPRISEThe last surprise is when you comegradually to realize that nothingsurprises you any more.

Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts  haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard. I remember when there were just worms out there and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September nights.  ---  We were the eleven o'clock news because while the rest of the world was going to hell we made love.  ---  Toward the pleasures of a reconstituted crow I collect darkness within myself like the shadow of a blind lighthouse.

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