Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Index of first lines

∨ lay half-buried under soil
V lay half-buried under soil (second version)
∧was walking down the street with ∨
A little egg sticks to the plate
A people have been hacked, hewed,
All I wanted was a little cabin with a mud floor and us:
ART
Beneath the hackneyed prose of the petition
Between dust and dust
"Do you have
For the sake of argument let's say you have no identity.
Have you noticed how the tree twists
He’s coiled but no serpent—
Her breasts were hard as rocks
HERE I stand
HE'S welcome
I don't trust her but then do I trust any of them?
I/me/we/us
I remember the moment
I, returning
I thought I was free and I was
If I were Japanese this morning I would have disembowelled myself
In the blind poet's closet,
In the dark ages
It excited me that you were available
It had to be lilacs my mother made me cut, lilacs
I've touched the silky lining of death's cunt.
Lilac and violet springs in your mouth
Love is an endlessly incomplete project
May I eat this tender chop,
"My daughter Lavinia's propensity
Naked they skit as the shears quit their clack.
Next time you can't think of anything to do
Once upon a time
One day you find yourself in a lazy-boy recliner
Open the box
Overhead the flickering bulb
Shave the fur from the purring beast
She's a high maintenance, low functioning system
SILVER SNOWFLAKES
Softly the shoes pace
Someone should put a rope around his neck
The King of Hearts stands at the gates
The parts of a busted doll
The schemes of kings, emperors and retainers,
...the snake
The tower of
The world is
The you she thinks you are
There’s a little place in the desert where people used to go
There's this nurse—her name is Zeny
These beds are moated castles
Though/Ramblin' Rose/played twice
To love. To love now. To risk losing it.
UP AND down
What you take to be solid my dear
With a crushing weight on my chest
You caress the bubble but it doesn't burst.
You're a soggy newsprint paper doll
You're a little white paper boat
You’re a little white paper boat (2)
You are an orchid, a lilac
You’re just a little paper boat
You've given me so much