The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain Book

	German	3
	The old girl	5
	The birds	9
	Game day	11
	Gas	13
	Mystery leg	15
	Be cool, fool	22
	An unliterary afternoon	24
	Poop	27
	The end of an era	31
	The 60's	38
	The would-be horseplayer	41
	The night Richard Nixon shook my hand	43
	Throwing away the alarm clock	44
	Pretenders	45
	$1.25 a gallon	47
	Floss-job	49
	A friendly place	51
	The old couple	54
	What?	56
	Born again	57
	Card girls	58
	It's never been so good	61
	Goading the muse	63
	The wavering line	66
	The road to hell	70
	Crucifixion	72
	Barfly	73
	Thoughts while eating a sandwich	77
	Nothing's free	78
	What bothers them most	79
	Into the wastebasket	84
	It's over and done	87
	Nice guy	88
	Feet to the fire	90
	The poetry game	91
	The fix is in	93
	Photos	94
	Tonight	95
	A visitor complains	97
	Besieged	100
	The novice	101
	Cleopatra now	103
	Please	106
	The barometer	107
	Enemy of the king, 1935	109
	Nights of vanilla mice	111
	Lark in the dark	113
	Lonely hearts	115
	B as in bullshit	117
	A riot in the streets	118
	Interlude	119
	D.N.F.	121
	Reading little poems in little magazines	122
	How to get away?	124
	The difficulty of breathing	126
	Help wanted and received	129
	Heart in the cage	130
	Places to die and places to hide	132
	Poem for the young and tough	134
	Ow	135
	My doom smiles at me-	136
	Hey, Kafka!	138
	A strange visit	140
	1970 blues	142
	Snow white	144
	Sour grapes	145
	Fencing with the shadows	146
	A hell of a duet	148
	The dogs	150
	Cold summer	153
	Crime does pay	155
	Throwing my weight around	157
	They rolled the bed out of there	160
	Crawl	163
	Nothing here	165
	My last winter	166
	First poem back	167
	A summation	168
	Walking papers	169
	Alone in this room	171
	Farewell, farewell	172
	About the mail lately	173
	Life on the half shell	175
	The hardest	176
	A terrible need	177
	Body slam	178
	The gods are good	179
	The sound of typewriters	180
	A fight	184
	Sunbeam	187
	Apparitions	191
	Speed	192
	It's difficult to see your own death approaching	194
	Made in the shade (Happy New Year)	195
	One for Wolfgang	196
	Night unto night	197
	Notes on some poetry	199
	The buzz	201
	A simple kindness	203
	Good try, all	205
	Proper credentials are needed to join	207
	Silly damned thing anyhow	210
	Moth to the flame	212
	7 come 11	213
	Put out the light	215
	Foxholes	217
	Calm elation, 1993	218
	I have this new room	223
	Writing	225
	Human nature	227
	Notations	229
	Democracy	231
	Kraznick	232
	Hungaria, Symphonia Poem #9 by Franz Liszt	234
	Club Hell, 1942	236
	Unloading the goods	239
	Saratoga hot walker	241
	The sixties?	244
	Experience	250
	Fame at last	252
	Party of nine	255
	He showed me his back	258
	The unfolding	259
	Drunk before noon	261
	Thumbs up, thumbs down	263
	They are after me	265
	Feeling fairly good tonight	268
	There's a poet on every bar stool	269
	Valet	274
	Prescience	277
	10:45 a.m	278
	The horses of Mexico	280
	A big night	282
	A musical difference	284
	You tell me what it means	286
	Dear reader:	288
	Not much singing	290
	The shadows	292
	A pause before the counter attack	293
	Picture this	294
	9 bad boys	295
	One more day	296