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Actual Lally by Eileen Myles

Poems

STUPID RABBITS

“So, the novels . . .”

Hitchhiking To Atlantic City

Letter To John Coltrane

Hard Rain

In The Distance

THE SOUTH ORANGE SONNETS

from The South Orange Sonnets

DUES

American Renaissance

Re

Two Poems While Something Crumbled

Once

Aint No

Watching You Walk Away

Revolution

Counterrevolution

Weatherman Blues

ROCKY DIES YELLOW

“Now I’m Only Thirty-Two”

You Remember Belmar NJ 1956

Song

Kent State May 4, 1970

Newark Poem

Dreaming Of The Potato

“We Were Always Afraid Of”

***Marilyn Monroe***

Poem To 1956

Poetry 1969

Weatherman Goes Out 1969

Conversation With Myself

I Wish I Could Tell You About It

MY LIFE

My Life

CHARISMA

Listen

More Than

Sonnet For My 33rd

Testimony

About The Author

CATCH MY BREATH

Need

from Running Away

Empty Closets

JUST LET ME DO IT

Violets

2:Talking

In Harlem In 1961

Their Imagination Safe

So

Queen Jane

Today What If Everything Reversed

File

You Walk In

9.13.73

(“I Stand”)

In America

You Are Here

A Little Liszt For Olga

Valentine

Dark Night

Peaking

No Other Love Have I

Life Is A Bitch

In The Recent Future

On Turning 35

She’s Funny That Way

WHITE LIFE

Life

Superrealism

April Fool’s Day 1975

“To Be Alone . . .”

So This Is Middle Age?

ATTITUDE

The Other Night

Honky Hill (Hyattsville Maryland)

Out In The Hall

Eric Dolphy

“In 1962 I Was Living . . .”

Feeling

Lists

Touch

Falling In Love

Fathers Day

What We’re Missing

2/4/76

Notice To Creditors

Snow 2

The Cold

Mother’s Day 1978

Loving Women

Coming Up From The Seventies

“As Time Goes By”

HOLLYWOOD MAGIC

My Image

Something Quaint

The Women Are Stronger Than The Men

from DC

Another Way To Play

from ***On The Scene***

Don’t Fuck With Anti-Tradition

Tough Times

New York New York

The Secret

In The Evening

Sometimes

Alone Again, Naturally

Piece Of Shit

from Hollywood Magic

“Soft Portraits”

from It’s Not Just Us

Dues, Blues, & Attitudes

The Night John Lennon Died

Fuck Me In The Heart Acceptance!

CANT BE WRONG

Going Home Again

Sports Heroes, Cops And Lace

Holiday Hell

20 Years Ago Today

Disco Poetry

The Sound of Police Cars

Having It All

Something Back

Young Love

Isn’t It Romantic?

They Must Be Gods And Goddesses

Obsession Possession And Doing Time

That Feeling When It First Goes In

I Overwhelmed Her With My Need

I’m Afraid I’m Gonna Start

from Fools For Love

Lost Angels 2

Last Night

Attitude And Beatitude

Turning 50

Where Do We Belong

OF

from Of

IT’S NOT NOSTALGIA

It’s Not Nostalgia—It’s Always There

Patterns

4.4.80

Lost Angels

Six Years In Another Town

On November Second Nineteen Ninety Three

My Life 2

IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE

What?

Heaven & Hell

Who Are We Now

Is As

from Hardwork

from The Rain Trilogy

Brother Can You Spare A Rhyme?

Know

Walk On The Wild Side

The Healing Poem

Forbidden Fruit

Bad Boys And Women Who Want It All

Attitude, Gratitude, and Beatitude

More Than Enough

It Takes One To Know One

MARCH 18, 2003

from Match 18, 2003

SWING THEORY

Before You Were Born

Birth/Rebirth

The God Poems

Swing Theory 1

The Geese Don’t Fly South

Give Me Five Minutes More

Dear Birds

from The 2008 Sonnets

Tea Party Summer

Swing Theory 2

Poem On The Theme: Arthritis

Swing Theory 3

String Theory

from So And

The Jimmy Schuyler Sonnets

November Sonnet

The San Francisco Sonnets (1962)

Swing Theory 4

How The Dark Gets Out

To The Light

Love Never Dies

Fighting Words

Swing Theory 5

THE VILLAGE SONNETS

from The Village Sonnets

NEW POEMS

from New York Notes (2004)

To My Son Flynn

Most Memorable Movie Mothers

Two Post-Brain-Operation Observations

Blizzard of ’16

Take It Easy

Too Many Creeps

First Two Reactions

The Times They’re Always Changin’

Love is the Ultimate Resistance