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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
  4.29 avg rating — 539 ratings
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1993
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Dien Cai Dau
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1988
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Talking Dirty to the Gods
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Pleasure Dome
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2001
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Magic City
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Warhorses
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2008
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The Best American Poetry 2003
by Yusef Komunyakaa , David Lehman 3.76 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Thieves of Paradise
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1998
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The Chameleon Couch: Poems
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2011
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Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems
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2004
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“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel
the need gotta be
so deep words can't
answer simple questions
all night long notes
stumble off the tongue
& color the air indigo
so deep fragments of gut
& flesh cling to the song
you gotta get into it
so deep salt crystalizes on eyelashes
the need gotta be
so deep you can vomit up ghosts
& not feel broken
till you are no more
than a half ounce of gold
in painful brightness
you gotta get into it
blow that saxophone
so deep all the sex & dope in this world
can't erase your need
to howl against the sky
the need gotta be
so deep you can't
just wiggle your hips
& rise up out of it
chaos in the cosmos
modern man in the pepperpot
you gotta get hooked
into every hungry groove
so deep the bomb locked
in rust opens like a fist
into it into it so deep
rhythm is pre-memory
the need gotta be basic
animal need to see
& know the terror
we are made of honey
cause if you wanna dance
this boogie be ready
to let the devil use your head
for a drum”
― Yusef Komunyakaa
the need gotta be
so deep words can't
answer simple questions
all night long notes
stumble off the tongue
& color the air indigo
so deep fragments of gut
& flesh cling to the song
you gotta get into it
so deep salt crystalizes on eyelashes
the need gotta be
so deep you can vomit up ghosts
& not feel broken
till you are no more
than a half ounce of gold
in painful brightness
you gotta get into it
blow that saxophone
so deep all the sex & dope in this world
can't erase your need
to howl against the sky
the need gotta be
so deep you can't
just wiggle your hips
& rise up out of it
chaos in the cosmos
modern man in the pepperpot
you gotta get hooked
into every hungry groove
so deep the bomb locked
in rust opens like a fist
into it into it so deep
rhythm is pre-memory
the need gotta be basic
animal need to see
& know the terror
we are made of honey
cause if you wanna dance
this boogie be ready
to let the devil use your head
for a drum”
― Yusef Komunyakaa
“Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other.”
― Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other.”
― Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome
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