Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy (1973)

Poem (1973)

Excerpt

Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy

into the elephant's ass 
shoots the sun, well, not entirely
into the elephant's ass 
shoots the sun, hardly halfway...

Forum References

• Scan of magazine appearance

Appears in Books

• Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974 - 2011, pg. 179

Appears in Magazines

• New York Quarterly - no. 18, 1976

Appears in Manuscripts

• big grey balloon things, heavy - 7/10/1973, carbon

Recorded Readings

• Live reading at the Underwater Poetry Festival in Salt Lake City

Alternate Versions

• Elephants In The Zoo

Posts that link here

• Another Day/Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy
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