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Chances Are Few
New edition with the addition of 22 previously unpublished poems and a new introduction by the author.
- GenresPoetry
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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July 19, 2018
Nope. There are rhymes but the rest is flimsy. I can't bring myself to like it.
January 10, 2025
Inauguration
The land was there before us
Was the land. Then things
Began happening fast. Because
The bombs us have always work
Sometimes it makes me think
God must be one of us. Because
Us has saved the world. Us gave it
A particular set of regulations
Based on 1) undisputable acumen.
2) carnivorous fortunes, delicately
Referred to here as “bull market”
And (of course) other irrational factors
Deadly smoke thick over the icecaps,
Our man in Saigon Lima Tokyo etc etc (15)
The Rule of Thumb
My mood
Reminds me
Of Ron’s “Radio”
Tulsa
1921
The riots “riots”
Instead of the Jazz Age
T for Tulsa
T for Tennessee
Bob Wills for Texas
San Antonio Rose
And all that and
Vo de oh doh
Voodoo Class of ‘21
Instead, niggers screaming
No jazz (36)
from Class Action
The logic holds its own
configuration
Patterns of light of thought of sound must move
Patterns are meant to bounce away
From walls; the ones that stick there….
Kente cloth moves when woman works
to praise the weaver (107)
The land was there before us
Was the land. Then things
Began happening fast. Because
The bombs us have always work
Sometimes it makes me think
God must be one of us. Because
Us has saved the world. Us gave it
A particular set of regulations
Based on 1) undisputable acumen.
2) carnivorous fortunes, delicately
Referred to here as “bull market”
And (of course) other irrational factors
Deadly smoke thick over the icecaps,
Our man in Saigon Lima Tokyo etc etc (15)
The Rule of Thumb
My mood
Reminds me
Of Ron’s “Radio”
Tulsa
1921
The riots “riots”
Instead of the Jazz Age
T for Tulsa
T for Tennessee
Bob Wills for Texas
San Antonio Rose
And all that and
Vo de oh doh
Voodoo Class of ‘21
Instead, niggers screaming
No jazz (36)
from Class Action
The logic holds its own
configuration
Patterns of light of thought of sound must move
Patterns are meant to bounce away
From walls; the ones that stick there….
Kente cloth moves when woman works
to praise the weaver (107)
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