Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974 (2011)

Published as a poetry collection by Prague Collective, 1/6/2011

Works in this Book

• Caught Again At Some Impossible Pass - pg. 3 - 1959
• The Damnation of Recognition - pg. 4 - 1962
• The Death Of A Bee In The Grass Along Mariposa Avenue - pg. 5 - 1962
• To Jane Cooney Baker, Died 1-22-62 - pg. 6 - 1962
• 9-23-63 - pg. 8 - 1963
• To The Academians, And Those First Box Front, Opera - pg. 11 - 1964
• Dust Suds Dust Dissertation - pg. 12 - 1966
• The Drowning Of The Ants - pg. 15 - 1968
• Toy Christ - pg. 17 - 1968
• Get The Nose - pg. 20 - 1968
• HOW LONG DOES LOVE STAY GREEN? (as long as the money lasts) - pg. 22 - 1965
• Rest You Merry Gentlemen And Rest You Merry Whores And Let The Lamplights Light - pg. 25 - 1966
• All the Love of Me Goes Out to Her (for A.M.) - pg. 28 - 1969
• 1926 Dodge, Tijuana - pg. 30 - 1970
• The Palmleaves Of California - pg. 32 - 1970
• Only The Truly Lost - pg. 34 - 1970
• The Scene - pg. 36 - 1970
• Now The Professors - pg. 37 - 1970
• T.H.I.A.L.H. - pg. 40 - 1970
• Poem For An X-Bank Clerk - pg. 41 - 1970
• Early Morning Beer And Not Much Else - pg. 42 - 1970
• The Heart's Riot - pg. 43 - 1970
• To A Girl In March Wind With Pure Wonderment Of Thigh Calve And Knee - pg. 45 - 1970
• Doom Like Those Large Red Lights You Suddenly See In The Overhead Mirror - pg. 46 - 1970
• Baby Needs A New Castle In Switzerland - pg. 47 - 1970
• Graditude - pg. 49 - 1970
• Looking For Jack Micheline - pg. 50 - 1970
• Ice - pg. 52 - 1970
• Poem To Yevtushkenko - pg. 53 - 1970
• Rolled Again - pg. 59 - 1970
• That Liberating Movement - pg. 61 - 1970
• Society Should Realize - pg. 62 - 1970
• The Girl Outside The Supermarket - pg. 64 - 1970
• A Need For Glue - pg. 65 - circa 1970
• The Creation Of The Morning Line - pg. 66 - 1972
• Down On The Row - pg. 67 - 1971
• Old Age - pg. 68
• Poem For An Errand Boy In The Year 1941 - pg. 69 - 1971
• The Game-Players - pg. 71 - 1971
• When The Violets Roar At The Sun They'll Set Us Free - pg. 73 - 1971
• Venice, Calif. - pg. 74 - 1971
• I Met This Woman - pg. 76 - 1971
• Work-Fuck Problems - pg. 78 - 1971
• Crowds - pg. 81 - 1971
• My Literary Fly - pg. 84 - 1971
• Song For This Softly-Sweeping Sorrow - pg. 86 - 1971
• The Chicken - pg. 87 - 1971
• A Very Dramatic Man - pg. 89 - 1971
• A Well-Known Poet And Myself - pg. 90 - circa 1971
• The Bells - pg. 92 - 1972
• Tonight - pg. 94 - 1972
• The End - pg. 95 - 1972
• (untitled) - pg. 96 - 1972
• On The Sidewalk And In The Sun - pg. 97 - 1972
• The Gigolo - pg. 99 - 1972
• Back Ups - pg. 102 - 1972
• Moons Of Honey Drown The Lark Hahaha - pg. 103 - 1972
• Crime and Punishment - pg. 105 - 1972
• The Ordinary Cafe Of The World - pg. 107 - 1972
• Crickets - pg. 109 - 1972
• Wide And Revolving - pg. 111 - 1972
• Artistic Selfishness, Yes, I Have It - pg. 112 - 1972
• A Cop-Out To A Possible Immortality - pg. 113 - 1972
• The Triangle - pg. 114 - 1972
• There's People In Places Where Snow Lives - pg. 115 - 1972
• The Angel Who Pushed His Wheelchair - pg. 116 - 1972
• This Drunk - pg. 119 - 1972
• Born To Lose - pg. 121 - 1972
• Girls Coming Home In Their Cars - pg. 123 - 1972
• Round Trip - For T.H. - pg. 125 - 1972
• Daylight Saving - pg. 127 - 1972
• Yes, Yes - pg. 128 - 1972
• Fast Track - pg. 129 - 1972
• 200 Yards From The Surf - pg. 131 - 1972
• A Great Man Speaks Of Great Men - pg. 133 - 1972
• Robinson Jeffers And Love - pg. 136 - 1972
• I Can't See Anything - pg. 137 - 1972
• My Hump-Backed Laughing Soul - pg. 138 - 1972
• A Critic - pg. 139 - 1972
• The Reason - pg. 140 - 1972
• Piss - pg. 142 - 1972
• Woman In The Supermarket - pg. 144 - 1973
• Demise - pg. 149 - 1973
• Drunk And Listening To Some English Marches On The Radio While Far Away From You - pg. 150 - 1973
• The Arcade Room - pg. 152 - 1973
• Panties - pg. 154 - 1973
• It Will Come On Padded Feet Carrying Roses, Wine And The Yellow Pages In Its Mouth - pg. 159 - 1973
• No Bra, No Panties - pg. 160 - 1973
• Something About A Cat - pg. 163 - 1973
• 200 Years - pg. 164 - 1973
• She Lost Weight - pg. 168 - 1973
• Vegetables - pg. 168 - 1973
• The Copulation Blues - pg. 170 - 1973
• The Lambs Of Laughter - pg. 171 - 1973
• My Comrades - pg. 173 - 1973
• Overtime - pg. 176 - 1973
• The Police Helicopter - pg. 177 - 1973
• Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy - pg. 179 - 1973
• Hooked - pg. 181 - 1973
• Did You Ever Think About That? - pg. 183 - 1973
• The Boy In Red For A 20 - pg. 184 - 1974
• 2,294 - pg. 186 - 1974
• A Plausible Finish - pg. 187 - 1974
• An Afternoon In Mid-February - pg. 189 - 1974
• Dig Me A Ditch - pg. 191 - 1974
• One Hundred Dollars - pg. 195 - 1974
• A Confession - pg. 196 - 1974
• While Sitting In A Bar On Sunset Boulevard - pg. 198 - 1974
• The Midnight Dip - pg. 199 - 1974
• Rubber - pg. 200 - 1974
• Advice - pg. 202 - 1974
• All You Need - pg. 204 - 1974
• Mice - pg. 206 - 1974
• D.N.F. - pg. 208 - 1974
• Extant - pg. 209 - 1974
• Help Wanted - pg. 212 - 1974
• To Weep In Her Hair - pg. 213 - 1974
• Mother - pg. 215 - 1974
• Insomnia - pg. 217 - 1974
• Teeth - pg. 218 - 1974
• The Bells Of The Condom - pg. 219 - 1974
• No Cagney, Me - pg. 221 - 1974
• Where Are You? - pg. 223 - 1974
• It Comes From Somewhere - pg. 225 - 1974
• 2 Horse Collars - pg. 226 - 1974
• How Good Sleep Is Before Having To Walk Down Any Street - pg. 228 - 1974
• The Sun Itself, I Guess, Is The Only Thing That Doesn't Need The Love Of Luck - pg. 230 - 1974
• The Fulfillment - pg. 235 - 1974
• August - pg. 238 - 1974
• Love - pg. 239 - 1974
• The Mad Poet - pg. 247 - 1974
• Rosary For A Once Tenderness - pg. 248 - 1974
• A Love Poem - pg. 249 - 1974
• Apprentices - pg. 252 - 1974
• Free - pg. 254 - 1974
• Let's Be Original - pg. 256 - 1974
• Like A Movie - pg. 257 - 1974
• Guru - pg. 259 - 1974
• My Ol' Drinking Buddies - pg. 260 - 1974
• Cloud 9 - pg. 262 - 1974
• A Song To The Glorious Lonely - pg. 263 - 1974
• An Old Fan - pg. 264 - 1974
• Flashing White Teeth - pg. 265 - 1974
• Butterflies - pg. 266 - 1974
• Blinks A Little Spot Of Senseless Yellow In The Middle Of It All - pg. 268 - 1974
• Hitler's Mama - pg. 269 - 1974
• Feed Time - pg. 270 - 1974
• A Poem For The Swingers, A Poem For The Playgirls Of The Universe - pg. 272 - 1974
• I Meet A Vegetarian - pg. 273 - 1974

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