The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas. Lorenzo Thomas

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Happy New Year 300

       Summer Stock 301

       Art for Nothing 302

       Things Could Be Worse 303

       The Gods’ Own Privilege 307

       Souvenir of the Manassah Ball 310

       Liquid City 312

       DANCING ON MAIN STREET 319

       [Mister Anderson] 321

       I. ANY PLACE YOU’VE EVER BEEN 322

       The Kite and the Hawk 323

       South St. Blues 324

       Please, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood 325

       When If the Big Bands Come Back 326

       Guerilla Girls 327

       Displacement 329

       Sentiment 332

       Suburban Saturdays 335

       Morning Raga 337

       The Audie Murphy Game 339

       II. RITUALS AND IMPROVISATIONS 340

       Destruction of the Seated Man 341

       Last Call 343

       Excitation 346

       Skunk Insulation 351

       Grudge Match 353

       Lifelong Learning 354

       Otis 356

       Spirits You All 359

       Journey of 1,000 Li 364

       Tirade 365

       III. THE SIMPLEST OF ALL MYSTERIES 366

       Poem in Lieu of the Marriage of Andrew Zolem 367

       The Sadness of Space Exploration 369

       Quiet Riot 370

       Dumb Luck 371

       The New South 372

       Lights Out 373

       No, Don’t Get Up 374

       The Failure of Alchemy 375

       Working-Class Hero 376

       The Gambler 377

       Knight to Queen’s Pawn 378

       An Old Hand 379

       Pornography = Exploitation of Men 380

       Now You Can Worry 382

       L’Argent 384

       IV. RESISTANCE AS MEMORY 385

       Thinking in Words 386

       Like a Tree 388

       Sightseeing in East Texas 390

       Psalm 392

       Back in the Day 396

       Whale Song 398

       Songs without Shadows 399

       The Marks Are Waiting 402

       Dirge for Amadou Diallo 405

       An Afternoon with Dr. Blumenbach 408

       V. DANGEROUS DOUBTS 410

       Dangerous Doubts 411

       Lustre 412

       Cameo in Sudden Light 413

       Country Song 416

       Multicultural 417

       Low Rider 418

       An Even-Tempered Girl Holds Her Breath 419

       She Lived to Be 100 420

       A Kind of Accounting 421

       Cute Girl with a Toy Monkey 422

       Flash Point 424

       God Sends Love Disguised as Ordinary People 425

       Magnetic Charms 427

       Equinox 429

       Back-Ordered Tears 434

       ADDITIONAL POEMS 435

       The Black Canaries Weep over Gomorrha 437

       South Afrika 439

       A Tale of Two Cities 440

       Grass 441

       West 444

       Political Science 445

       Enuresis 446

       Gilbert and Sullivan 448

       Another Abstract Etc 449

       The Conscience of Cole Porter 450

       The Pornography 451

       Linear Variation 452

       Nichomachean Ethics 453

       Chorus from an Unwritten Greek Play 454

       The Color Section 455

       The Judgment of Paris 457

       The Fall of Paris 458

       Robert Williams, Exiled in Cuba 459

       Sonnet 460

       Life on the Farm 461

       Project Blues 462

       Secrets of the Samba 467

       Modern Plumbing Illustrated 469

       The Subway Witnesses 470

       Two One-Act Plays 471

       Selena 472

       From the Working Days 473

       The Midnight Sun 475

       Good Housekeeping 476

       Five Empty Reams 477

       Millenarian Joys 478

       Walking Vicksburg Blues 479

       A Mingus Memory 480

       Hollandaise Salsa 481

       Diplomacy 483


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