Ron Padgett Poems

Here is my philosophy:
Everything changes (the word "everything"
has just changed as the
word "change" has: it now
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The little clock dings the night on the roof.
It hurries towerd the mystery of luck.
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Oh God! It's great!
to have someone fix you
chocolate milk
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I'm in the house.
It's nice out: warm
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It's very easy to get.
Just keep living and you'll find yourself
getting more and more of it.
You can keep it or pass it on,
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'And then there were three
whereas before there had been four
or two
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Everything is perfect, dear friend.
—KEROUAC

Get some sleep.
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It's funny when the mind thinks about the psyche,
as if a grasshopper could ponder a helicopter.

It's a bad idea to fall asleep
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Let me cook you some dinner.
Sit down and take off your shoes
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A second ago my heart thump went
and I thought, “This would be a bad time
to have a heart attack and die, in the
middle of a poem,' then took comfort
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