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A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
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[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.
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I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.
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The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where I first
fell in love
with unreality
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
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Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making.
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I see another war is coming
but I won't be there to fight it.
I have read the writing
on the outhouse wall.
I helped Kilroy write it.
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I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.
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The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
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Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap
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In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
March 24, 1919
Died:
February 22, 2021
(aged 101)
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