Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
Published as a poetry collection by Ecco, 18/1/2005
Works in this Book
- A 4th Of July In The Early 30'S - pg. 3
- An Easy Way To Die - pg. 17
- Clothes Cost Money - pg. 13
- My Close Call - pg. 12
- Without Stress Or Agony - pg. 9 - 1978
- We Have Hand Guns Around Here - pg. 19
- Making Do - pg. 20
- Rare Indeed - pg. 27 - 1992
- The Poet - pg. 28 - 1983
- Bolero - pg. 31
- A Winter Memory - pg. 34 - 1977
- Living In A Great Big Way - pg. 36 - circa 1991
- Then And Now - pg. 37
- How Did They Get Their Job? - pg. 44 - 1990
- Paper And People - pg. 45
- Writer's Block - pg. 49 - circa 1991
- Disorder And Early Sorrow - pg. 51
- In This Place - pg. 54
- The Uninitiated - pg. 55
- Cicada - pg. 57 - 1992
- Never Interrupt A Writer At Work - pg. 58
- Oh My - pg. 59 - 1990
- Meeting Them - pg. 60
- No Eulogies, Please - pg. 62 - 1982
- Finality - pg. 64
- The Machinery Of Loss - pg. 65
- Damsels Of The Night - pg. 69
- Forewarned - pg. 74
- She Lost Weight - pg. 75 - 1973
- Military Surplus - pg. 76 - circa 1990
- A Difficult Woman - pg. 79
- Talk - pg. 81 - 1978
- Where The Action Is Real - pg. 83 - 1978
- Academy Award - pg. 86 - 1978
- Beach Boys - pg. 88 - 1977
- I'm No Good - pg. 90 - 1992
- Friend Of The Family - pg. 92 - circa 1993
- Solving A Crime Before It Begins - pg. 94
- Note For My Wall - pg. 96 - 1977
- The Wine That Roared - pg. 97
- 2:07 A.M. - pg. 101 - 1977
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - pg. 105
- Do We Really Care? - pg. 108
- For Crying Out Loud - pg. 111 - 1975
- High School Girls - pg. 113 - 1984
- Emergency - pg. 115 - 1981
- For A Woman Who Might Some Day Become A Nun - pg. 116
- Some People Ask For It - pg. 117 - 1975
- Against The Window Pane - pg. 119 - 1975
- An Answer To A Day's Worth Of Mail - pg. 121
- New York, New York - pg. 122
- The Knife Waltz - pg. 125 - 1975
- Dusty Shoes - pg. 126
- Vulgar Poem - pg. 128 - 1981
- This One - pg. 134 - circa 1978
- The Big Lonely Night - pg. 140
- One A.M. - pg. 145
- The Curse - pg. 147 - 1990
- With His Awful Teeth - pg. 149 - circa 1993
- Golden Boy - pg. 151 - 1978
- Surreal Tangerines - pg. 153 - 1977
- Little Magazines And Poetry Chapbooks - pg. 155 - 1978
- My Buddy - pg. 156 - 1978
- Last Friday Night - pg. 158
- Open Here - pg. 160 - circa 1991
- A Name Is Nothing If The Named Is Nothing - pg. 161
- The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did - pg. 163 - 1992
- You Can't Make A Lion Out Of A Butterfly - pg. 165 - 1978
- I Don't Know About You But - pg. 168
- It's A Drag Just Breathing - pg. 172
- A Hard Lesson - pg. 175
- A Conversation To Remember - pg. 177 - 1992
- Picture Show - pg. 178
- He Played First Base - pg. 179 - 1977
- The Suicide Kid - pg. 181 - circa 1994
- Snake Eyes And Faulty Screams - pg. 183
- I Fought Them From The Moment I Saw Light - pg. 184
- Now Ezra - pg. 187
- Concession - pg. 189
- It - pg. 190 - 1990
- Terror - pg. 191
- My Rosy Ass - pg. 193
- This Is A Bitter Poem - pg. 196
- Poem For Nobody - pg. 199
- Checkmate - pg. 201
- The Tide - pg. 202 - circa 1984
- To Hell And Back - pg. 210 - 1990
- Something's Knocking At The Door - pg. 212
- Regardless - pg. 214
- The Dandy - pg. 219 - circa 1978
- I Am A Mole - pg. 221 - 1990
- Somebody Else - pg. 222 - circa 1991
- IBM Selectric - pg. 224
- Why Oh Why And Oh Why Not? - pg. 227 - 1990
- Movies - pg. 228
- No Luck At All - pg. 229
- Good News - pg. 232 - circa 1993
- Bedpan Nightmare - pg. 234 - circa 1991
- Robert - pg. 237 - 1974
- Private Screenings - pg. 239
- As You Slow Down The Mermaids Look The Other Way - pg. 241
- Something New - pg. 243 - 1978
- The Swimming Pool - pg. 244
- The Great Writer - pg. 246 - 1992
- I Used To Think - pg. 247
- From The Department Of Health - pg. 249
- Working Out - pg. 251 - 1992
- My Friend William Burroughs - pg. 252 - 1977
- A Note Upon Starvation - pg. 254 - 1977
- Poem For My 70th Birthday - pg. 256
- You'll Never Know - pg. 257 - 1974
- Joe - pg. 259
- Top Gun - pg. 263 - 1992
- It's Strange - pg. 264 - 1990
- Explosion - pg. 266 - circa 1993
- Small Talk - pg. 268 - 1990
- Basic - pg. 270
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