Sam Kaufman | uhwuhna at gmail dot com | also at cogito zero sum

Friday, February 16, 2007

Poets who die


black lung
mac low
mac hine
breathing

jim behrle
died early
mistook for terrorist
& fed to bears

creeley
creaked along
long time

corbett
(black hole in MIT
basement
- where he stores the books)

crane should've
flown a plane

olson
still stinks up
the fishhouses

berryman god found
buried himself & drowned

berrigan
reproduced
at least twice politely & again

frank o'hara
over his shoulder
"Give it up!" etc crash

schuyler
retired

pound
crushed

silliman
worked in computers

ginsberg
overheated

sappho
(rugburn)

millAr
4evA

w.c.w.
so much depends on
one stroke
world champion
poof!

zukofsky
smokt
oomuch

truscott
hit by bus

bp upndd
(d|ppd |n pb)

sk offended, w/love & so?
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