Gregory Corso


BIOGRAPHY         CORSO AT THE CROSS


Gregory Corso
Birthplace Revisited (from Gasoline)

I stand in the dark light in the dark street
and look up at my window, I was born there.
The lights are on; other people are moving about.
I am with raincoat; cigarette in mouth,
hat over eye, hand on gat.
I cross the street and enter the building.
The garbage cans haven't stopped smelling.
I walk up the first flight; Dirty Ears
aims a knife at me...
I pump him full of lost watches.


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Gregory Corso