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"what if I'm 60 years old and not married,
all alone in a furnished room with pee stains on my underwear
and everybody else is married!"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 106-108). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"when Mrs Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest
grab her and tell her There are unfavorable omens in the sky!
And when the mayor comes to get my vote tell him
When are you going to stop people killing whales!"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 62-65). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"O how terrible it must be for a young man—
seated before a family and the family thinking
We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 16-19). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 83-84). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends
and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded
just wait to get at the drinks and food—"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 24-26). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Should I get married? Should I be good?
Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood?"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"The indifferent clerk he knowing what was going to happen
The lobby zombies they knowing what
The whistling elevator man he knowing
The winking bellboy knowing
Everybody knowing! I'd be almost inclined not to do anything!"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 37-41). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes—
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 100-103). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"she in the kitchen
aproned young and lovely wanting my baby
and so happy about me she burns the roast beef
and comes crying to me and I get up from my big papa chair
saying Christmas teeth! Radiant brains! Apple deaf!"
Gregory Corso (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Marriage (l. 52-56). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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