Chattanooga By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Lookout Mountain To others it is an uncouth name Used only by the uncivilised Our a-historical period ...
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The Consolations of Sociobiology By Bill Knott - Giggle Poems
Stigmata stalagmite I sat at a drive-in and watched the stars Through a straw while the Coke in my lap went Waterier and waterier.
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Mr. Nobody By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
’Tis he who always tears out books, Who leaves the door ajar, He pulls the buttons from our shirts, And scatters pins afar; That squeaking door will a ...
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Eyes: By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
“That’s why all babies are beautiful,” Thurber used to say as he grew blind—not dark, he’d go on to explain, but floating in a pale light always, a ki ...
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Passing By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
After I tell them I am black, I ask the class, “Was I passing when I was just sitting here, before I told you?” A white woman shakes her head desperat ...
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Autobiography By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I am leading a quiet life in Mike’s Place every day watching the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor and the French pinball addicts. I am leading a qu ...
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In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see ?????????????????????????????????????????? the people of the world??? ?????? exactly at the moment when ????? ...
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Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons??? ????????? walking their dogs ????????????????????? in Central Park West ??? (or their cats on leashes— ???? ...
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Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937 By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
In the morning We swam in the cold transparent lake, the blue Damsel flies on all the reeds like millions Of narrow metallic flowers, and I thought Of ...
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Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I’ve got pretty used to them In these past twenty-five years. I don’t mind if they sit next To me on streetcars, or eat In the same restaurants, if It ...
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The Metaphysical Amorist By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
But in this shadowy lower life I sleep with a terrestrial wife And earthy children I beget. Now, in the heavenly other place Love is in the eternal mi ...
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Unromantic Love By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
The love I could discover In these recesses knows no lover, Is the unreal, The undefined, unanalysed, Unabsolute many; It is antithesis of any, In non ...
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Meditation on Statistical Method By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight, But in our h ...
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At Darien Bridge By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Recalling the chains of their feet, I stand and look out over grasses At the bridge they built, long abandoned, Breaking down into water at last, And ...
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Falling By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
She looks for her grinning companion white teeth nowhere She is screaming singing hymns her thin human wings spread out From her neat shoulders the ai ...
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The Foggy, Foggy Blue By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
I’d gladly gladly stop if I only only knew A better way to keep from lying, And not get nervous and blue When I said something quite untrue: I looked ...
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Baudelaire By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
Dear Mother, is any time left to us In which to be happy? I am sick of having colds and headaches: You know my strange life. You little know A poet’s ...
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The Ballad of the Children of the Czar By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar’s garden, Tossing it back and forth. Like Papa’s face, said Sis ...
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
The heavy bear who goes with me,??? A manifold honey to smear his face,??? Clumsy and lumbering here and there,??? The central ton of every place,??? ...
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Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Some are teethed on a silver spoon, ???With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— ???For implements of battle. Some are ...
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Karenge ya Marenge By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame for all doors shut, Yet in its like sees but imp ...
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From the Dark Tower By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should ho ...
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Boil By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
Boil over—it’s what the nerves do,??? Watch them seethe when stimulated, Murmurs the man at the stove??? To the one at the fridge— Watch that electr ...
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Nude Descending By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds Like prize ribbons for the very best The lover, producer Of another’s pleasure He whom her swollen lips a ...
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