Gregory Corso
There’s rust on the old truths
—Ironclad clichés erode
New lies don’t smell as nice
as new shoes
I’ve years of poems to type up
40 years of smoking to stop
I’ve no steady income
No home
And because my hands are autochthonic
I can never wash them enough
I feel dumb
I feel like an old mangy bull
crashing through the red rag
of an alcoholic day
Yet it’s all so beautiful
isn’t it?
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Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time.