Just for a Thrill: Poems

Contents

vii CONTENTS Foreword ix I Saturday Night Fish Fry 3 Bursting Out All Over 4 Intrusion 5 Sepia-Toned Footage 6 Commercial Euphoria 9 White Supremacy Is Not Eternal 12 After Midnight 15 The Present “Crisis” 16 Stomp 17 Mesopotamia 23 II James Baldwin 33 Well You Needn’t 36 The Wonderful Fantasies of the Colonized 37 Giant 38 The Blab of the Pave 41 Supporting Architecture 45 Just for a Thrill 46 Reverie 51 Evaluation 52 III The Culture of the Copy 63 One Year Later 64 Loose Sentences 65 Don’t Blame Me 66 Aimlessly Roaming Along Fifth Avenue 67 What I Learned 68 Humoresque 69 Sunlit Frames 70 Rock Serenity 74 Inclusivity 75 Night Language 78 Amusement Without Weather 79 At the Border to the Unexceptional Sky 80 Six Episodes in the History of Flight 83 Notice 89 Bangs & Whimpers 90 IV The Fall of Vietnam 95 Threnody for Edsel Reid 97 Conditions of Artificial Scarcity 98 Nostalgia 102 Letter to the Board 108 viii ...