08-18-2013, 05:13 AM
Emily Dickinson's other 1,869 poems aren't bad either, but don't try to use all of those dashes here, as you will be bashed!
Too many favorites, but this may be in the top 50:
Birthplace Revisited
Gregory Corso
I stand in the dark light in the dark
street
and look up at my window, I was
born there.
The lights are on; other people are
moving about.
I am with raincoat; cigarette in
mouth,
hat over eye, hand on gat.
I cross the street and enter the
building.
The garbage cans haven't stopped
smelling.
I walk up the first flight; Dirty Ears
aims a knife at me…
I pump him full of lost watches.
Too many favorites, but this may be in the top 50:
Birthplace Revisited
Gregory Corso
I stand in the dark light in the dark
street
and look up at my window, I was
born there.
The lights are on; other people are
moving about.
I am with raincoat; cigarette in
mouth,
hat over eye, hand on gat.
I cross the street and enter the
building.
The garbage cans haven't stopped
smelling.
I walk up the first flight; Dirty Ears
aims a knife at me…
I pump him full of lost watches.
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris