Index of Titles and First Lines

1/29/84 N.Y.C., 180

3’d day down Yangtze River, yesterday, 185

CXXV, 182

A

African Spirituality Will Save The Earth, 186

After Wales Visitacione July 29 1967, 86

Albion Albion your children dance again, 50

All the Centuries are the same, 167

All The Things I’ve Got To Do, 133

Am I A Spy From The Moon?, 177

Amnesiac Thirst For Fame, 157

And the plane bobs, 52

As the fire burns out tranquility returns, 41

As the rain drips from the gutter on to the bushes of the imperial court lawn, 173

Asia Minor For Gregory, 195

An “autograph hound” armed, 157

Awakened at dawn trying to run away—, 178

Ayahuasca—, 35

B

B.C. [Bob Creeley], 38

Back To Wuppertal, 176

Baudelaire’s Noctambules, 90

Bebbe put me on your lap, 130

Behold! The Swinging Swan, 12

The black and white glare blink in the inky Air Force night, 40

The Black Man, 160

Blue Starfish, 107

Bob Dylan Touring With Grateful Dead, 191

A Brief Praise Of Anne’s Affairs, 141

Busted, 83

C

Cafeteria’s metallic counter, iced tea & a blue check, 82

Canfield votes like a, 3

Cats Scratching, 171

Cats scratching my leg, nails in my raw skin, 171

Chugging along in an old open bus, 108

Cleveland Airport, 82

Cold January ends snowing on sidewalks, 109

Crescent faces row-tiered hanging, 85

D

Dawn, 23

Dawn I’ve been up all night answering letters, 149

Don’t Know Who I Am, 49

Dream Of Carl Solomon, 206

Dreamed, that I met Leroi, 93

E

Edith Sitwell’s gone, 189

Entering Kansas City High, 79

Epitaph For A Poet, 9

Epitaph For A Suicide, 8

Exorcism, 113

Eyes Full Of Pitchpine Smoke, 116

F

Face To Face, 188

Far Away, 175

For School Kids In New Jersey, 149

For The Soul Of The Planet Is Wakening, 101

Frank O’Hara darkly, 104

Freedom Of Speech, 117

G

Genocide, 93

Good God I got high bloodpressure answering, 156

Government Anarchy prolongs illegal, 95

The Great Secret is no secret, 86

Green Notebook, 118

Grey clouds hang over, 179

H

Having bowed down my forehead on the pavement on Central Park West, 174

Her Engagement, 15

Hermaphrodite Market, 199

Hiss, gaslamp —, 102

Hitch-Hiking Key West, 16

Homage To Paris At The Bottom Of The Barrel, 128

How many people have been busted?, 83

How real is Bolivia, 31

Hum! Hum! Hum!, 105

I

I bought a, 199

I look like someone else, 17

I meet Carl Solomon, 206

I sit three miles from your flat, 47

I used to live in gay sad Paris!, 172

I walked for miles, 16

I was waiting for Eternals, 38

Imagination, 119

In A Red Bar, 17

In A Shaking Hand, 43

In Greenwich Village, night had come, 5

in shiny, 160

Inscribed In George Whitman’s Guest Register, 109

It is a beauteous evening calm and free, 198

Its always acting like that beginning, 127

J

Journals November 22, ‘63, 40

K

Kidneystone Opium Traum, 127

A knock, look in the mirror, 159

L

Last Conversation With Carl Or In Memoriam, 200

Leave The Bones Behind, 26

A Lion Met America, 25

Listening To Susan Sontag, 167

Little Flower M.M. [Marianne Moore], 47

Liverpool Muse, 50

Loudspeakers drifting, 43

Louis’ First Night In Grave, 123

M

Mabillon Noctambules, 90

Magnifying &, 119

May Day, 41

May King’s Prophecy, 99

The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon, 197

A mountain outside, 112

N

Nashville April 8, 85

New Years Greeting, 198

New York To San Fran, 52

A Night In The Village, 5

Nixon has a pillow in his mouth in the kitchen, 22

No Money, No War, 95

No Way Back To The Past, 136

Noisy beets boiling in the pressure cooker, 111

Nothing lonelier, 118

Now that bow arrow brush & fan are balanced in the hand, 164

O

On Farm, 111

On Nixon; Chain Poem, 22

On the Ferris Wheel rising to the full moon, 136

On top, the vast city, 37

P

Passing through Manhattan’s sodium vapor sidestreet glare, 162

Pinsk After Dark, 165

Playing tapes of Woody Guthrie singing “Dust-Pneumonia Blues”, 153

Popeye And William Blake Fight To The Death, 144

Popeye sat upon his chair, 144

Postcard To D, 108

R

[re: Twin Towers Explosion on TV], 200

The Real Distinguished Thing, 27

Reborn a rabbi in Pinsk, reincarnated backward time, 165

Reef Mantra, 107

Rep Gordon Canfield, 3

Rose Is Gone, 183

S

Seattle Gospel Chorus, 186

Second Spontaneous Collaboration Into The Air, Circa 23 May 1980, 153

She was born in Greenwich Village, 141

Six Senses, 102

Spring green buddings, white-blossoming trees, Mayday picnic, 99

Spring night four a.m., 121

Song, 10

(Steps to Unconsciousness under Laughing Gas), 27

Sunset, a marble tea table on Kusadasi’s, 195

Surrounded by transmission wires, 123

Surviving death, 182

T

Take your god Shuddering morsel, 128

A Tall Student, 155

There’s nobody here, 21

They say Blacks work sweating, 175

Things I gotta do, 133

This single pleasure, 9

Thundering Undies, 162

Thus On A Long Bus Ride, 19

Time Mag’s Central American Expert sd, 166

To Frank O’Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch, 31

To live and deal with life as if it were a stone, 11

Tokyo Tower, 37

Trungpa Lectures, 164

Two Scenes, 166

U

Up late Sunday, late nite reading thru New York Times, 180

V

Verses Included In Howl Reading Boston City Hall, 131

W

Walt Whitman, 36

War Is Black Magic, 39

We have to go through the warehouse, 15

We leave the youthful pennants and the books, 4

We rode on a lonely bus, 20

A weary lover, 8

What’s buzzing, 18

… when the blonde & naked angel come to pierce them with a sword, 131

Who’s Gone?, 189

Winds around the beaches blow, 10

The world’s an illusion, 106

Wyoming, 112

Y

Yesterday I was writing in Heaven or of Heaven, 33

You Want Money?, 169

You’re going to grow old, white haired withered gasping, 113