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denly he held a toy pistol to his head, pulled the trigger and
on a given chord he crumpled to the floor. Was he the
freckled man who died repeating
—I sent her flowers with regrets, flowers regretfully, my
deep regrets and flowers?
HART CRANE
Jesus I saw crossing Times Square
with John the Baptist and they bade me stop
their hands touched mine
Visions from the belly of a bottle
The sea white white
the flower in the sea
the white fire glowing in the flower
and sea and fire and flower one
the world is one, falsehood and truth
one, morning and midnight, flesh and vision
one
I fled along the avenues of night
interminably and One pursued
My bruised arms in His arms nursed
my chest against His bleeding chest
my head limp against his shoulder
MATTHEW JOSEPHSON
Buy 300 steel at the
market buy 300 steel
at the market buy 300
steel
His face melted into the telephone
his lips curved with hello and dreamed
the vulcanized rubber eyes
with a hello there was a lake beneath
the Bowling Green 6000 trees
and hello Bowling Green the noise of waters
under a curdled sky hello
I dove into the lake hello