Standing Room Only
This population
Said Peter to St
Is really getting far too
Just look at the crowd in the hall
This population
Said Peter to St
Is really getting far too
Just look at the crowd in the hall
In Worcester,
Massachusetts,
I went with Aunt Consueloto keep her dentist's appointmentand sat and waited for herin the dentist's waiting room
It was winter
It must have been in March the rug wore through
Now the day passes and I
At warped pine boards my father's father nailed,
At the twisted grain
Sunshine has filled the room with clear golden specks of dust
I woke up and remembered, dear, it was your birthday
But far beyond my windows snow has covered the ground, And made me forget, so now to atone, I sleep without dreams
...
By haughty Celia spent in dressing;
The goddess from her chamber issues,
Arrayed in lace, brocades, and tissues
Strephon, who found the room was
Here,in the room of my lifethe objects keep changing
Ashtrays to cry into,the suffering brother of the wood walls,the forty-eight keys of the typewritereach an eyeball that is never shut,the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest,the bl...
In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for the Los Angeles Express to depart worrying about eternity over the Post Office roof in the night-time red downtown heaven staring through my e...
The light in the window seemed
When you stayed in the high room for me;
It glowed above the trees through
Like my certainty