Hello Friends,
I’m going to cheat a little bit today and send you a series of short poems (instead of just one poem) by my favorite street poet, Julia Vinograd. These excerpts are from her collection Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976.
Enjoy.
Ellen
There’s coke
in the spoon
of June.
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GRAFFITTI
Bathrooms inspire me.
I write my best poems
with my pants down.
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BOREDOM
We repeat ourselves
helplessly
like hiccups.
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WIFE
She hangs his laundry
out to dry
between her thighs.
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THE F.B.I.
Not even lovers
look so close
and see so little.
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HITCH-HIKING
Couples don’t stop.
They have their own problems.
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HARD TIMES
put a food stamp on this poem
and eat it.
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STREET MORALITY
Everything is permitted,
but nothing is taken seriously.
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WHAT NOW?
We’ve forgotten the rules
we were trying to break.
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Poet Julia Vinograd was also featured for Poem-a-Day April 25, 2011, Poem-a-Day April 12, 2009, and Poem-a-Day April 20, 2007.