Vallejo writing about
Loneliness while starving to death
Van Gogh's ear rejected by a whore
Rimbaud running off to Africa
To look for gold and finding
An incurable case of syphilis
Beethoven gone deaf
Pound dragged through the streets in a cage
Chatterton taking rat poison
Hemingway's brains dropping into
The orange juice pascal cutting his wrists
In the bathtub artaud locked up with the mad
Dostoevsky stood up against a wall
Crane jumping into a boat propeller
Lorca shot in the road by Spanish troops
Berryman jumping off a bridge
Burroughs shooting his wife
Mailer knifing his -that's what they want:
A God damned show a lit billboard
In the middle of hell
That's what they want, That bunch of
Dull inarticulate
Safe dreary
Admirers of carnivals