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Poems Six
Alan Dugan
(C) 1989

For Judy

Contents

Takeoff on Armageddon 11
On Flowers, On Negative Evolution 12
On Naming A Baby Mimosa 13
Surviving the Hurricane 14
An Envy of Natural Formal Liberties 15
Memories of a Boss in an Ad Agency 18
Love and Money 19
Marxist Analysis of the Fifth Labor of Hercules 20
Memories of the Bowery 21
Remembering an Account Executive 22
Monologue for a Sixth Avenue Screamer 23
Sexist Lament: Ruin by Monitor 24
Empirical Scene 25
On Plumbing After an Air Raid 26
On Fingernails in Bloody Times 27
On a Pocketknife, On Carrying 28
Travel Advisory for a Night Shift 30
Dedication for a Building 31
Oxymoronic Hospital Blues 32
Boast 33
Soliloquy: Ghost Dance for a Cripple 34
Provincetown Totentanz 35
In Memoriam: Aurelius Battaglia, and Against His Tragic Sense of Life 36
On the Death of Norman Dukes 38
Lament for Cellists and Jacqueline DuPre 39
On a Benign Bureaucratization of Death 41
Story for Actors 42
On a Travel Story from Wormwood Valley 43
On a Desolation of the Animals at Night 44
Note 45
Why There Is No Class Solidarity in America 46
I Read It in The Times. Aug. 2, 1987
Suburban Exorcism 47
American Tourist to a Guatemalan Tarantula 48
On a Skunked Fox 49
Carla Is a Horse Lover 50
The Dying Seagull and the Great Whore of the World 51
On Fishing Being a Chancy Life 52
Touristic Note from the Gulf 53
Criticism of Bergson and Darwin 54
Speech to the Student Clowns 55
at the Circus Clown School at Sarasota, Florida