Buck Downs

Buck is editor of _Open 24 Hours_, a little magazine in Washington DC and

has a book out of Greenbean Press in NYC. He may be reached at Box 50376,

Washington, DC, 20091.

a relatively low-end

change of name in vain

honey-comb gang w/space

to conduct any number

of over- and underdeter

mined games made a bleeping

little morpheme get seg

regated from its end-user

and that's how the blues

got the value-added blues.

terry thought he'd been struck blind

but it was just a hallucination

imagine having

a child you could not

see. on account of

a little dead child

in the way. a more or

less continual thing

like tripping, thru a

fake paper bottom

only to continue

who is in love w/th.

difference. taking

dictation from the eclipse

that happens. doesn't

care what matters

happens. To be in the way.

decemberer

than ever. the

damage is self

explanatory.

& evinces the

need to revisit

new orleans

each year whenever

there is no mardigras

in yr. soul left.

honky Tonkin resolution

I was standin on a bar

stool going I'll take

My stand but no one

heard what I was doing --

it was the sound

of progress, eating its

babies & vomiting

The tradition. I sold out

the collected bicentennial

quarters * met a m.ssus

greenjeans w/a mister

on his knee. some bldgs.

are so high they have their own

gas stations. whether or not

you drive . you will not have

a place to stay at if you don't, or

have one if you do; this

is the new segregation.

I never got to make it w/an ugly girl

but I sure wd. like to try.

Buck Downs