1 10 13 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/7edcb8c1dcd93d4087764ad776e858bd.pdf c0783c7dfbab3cba49be7a3d125df22f PDF Text Text A-Plus in Minus Values Authority and servant; cynosure, Or pro of low profile, bartenders--most-Strike soon the balance their physique suggests. This one did not. At under four foot eight, No one was less a Munchkin, more full scale. We are not talking Boys' Department here. You would not proposition that had you Not balls enough to take on Captain Blood. A grim comparison. He's dead of AIDS. "If you'd just polish up that buckle, Cowboy, I could comb my hair in it." Or, "Down Here I see the first sign of double chins." That presence, it is borne upon us now, Was kept up at some cost. For height, the slats And bricks behind the bar; the low-rise slacks Re-tailored so the pockets do not meet Behind. A little of a midget's rasp Was in the studied voice from time to time: Control can only carry one so far, And not, perhaps, to where he cares to be. For that, choice enters, and to have a choice Is measure of how far Hang Loose succeeds. One afternoon, to hang in place a pin Spotlight, I saw him climb a ladder. Rung By rung he rose to more and more himself. Staircases, Freud assures us, equal sex. That ladder, then… And when the swung light raked A whistling, actually applauding crowd… What is the sound of Patient Zero clapping? Was it not invidious, Zero, To pick on someone so near your own size? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A-Plus in Minus Values.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2006-02-26T14:40:53 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-06T22:26:17 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 235256b3be29e628799bd59a23c3c4c4 Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/c5edcc883b76e40083d2f98467497709.pdf d5c94efd7904ae47f7b30ff49ac223fe PDF Text Text The Albino on Castro Street You will not find on any Hamburg dockside So true a gene for virtual peroxide. The eyes aren’t pink, thanks to the contact lenses. Who go down lists are going into frenzies. An item for collectors, unaware His stock in trade is that Jean Harlow hair: His platinum American Express card, His entrée, price tag, and his Porno Press Card. He’ll be picked up and passed from hand to hand By bathhouse patrons jaded with the tanned. And if the contacts go into their case A blood transparent stares out of his face-The vision’s red, unseeing underside That, blind to its own presence, cannot pride Itself on white eyelashes, see-through iris (Which some will comment on in private diaries, As well as on the fadeout farther south). Nine days a wonder, then it’s hand to mouth, Made grimmer by a tale that got about How, breathing hard, he popped his contacts out. New items move fortnightly up the list; Who has no contacts now, will not be missed. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Albino on Castro Street.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-03-01T13:54:07 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-06T22:25:43 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0fcd65f59695774e1cbe2250197dff6a Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/715e526ab5f518d95b021235e6eb9355.pdf d24840dcc03015bba51c849155cd9fa1 PDF Text Text Cavalier Is What You Make It From sheer perversity, or need, I drive a street Where you, from sheerest greed, are hustling in fine sleet. The ice is pinging on the windshield, your thick glasses. You take them off and hurriedly run down your prices. The heater in the car unfogs you. On the way It fills the frequent gaps of our not much to say. “I’m only hustling for the money to buy contacts.” I only pick up hustlers to improve my syntax. No yield is either worse, or better, than who sow it. Our bed is warm, however, and how well you know it. “Can I stay?” “Not if it means another ten“ Toward noon I drive you back to earn a contact lens. Now, I need contacts too. And if I chance to hear Celestas in ACT II of Rosenkavalier, Their softly sleeting motif of the silver rose, I think of you, of that real sleet, and curl my toes. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cavalier Is What You Make It.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-03-01T15:37:11 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-06T22:29:20 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 205dd4c7c7043407ca35c91358f7eede Poems_for_Isobel TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/08fd4ebf847cc4417d78b0f072e5fd9c.pdf 73dce5876e914fee011cd95b23b2da72 PDF Text Text Do Not Gamble in the Service Club Combat for you and garrison for me. We drink to orders disparate as we. “I knew that first time when I swa you, Ace, You’d be the one with all the luck. In case Not much rubs off, well, it was fun to rub.” And I Diogenes crawl in my tub Before the honest envy of the born to lost In presence of the uses of the born to use.. Of late I am grown beery-honest too. In thirty years I have not thought of you, And least of all in those December days On board my troopship, in a tropic haze. No doubt in the assignment you were in The haze of luck you had from me wore thin. If you were killed, and mostly you born losers are, It was in snow. If not, you’ve found a wrinkle bar. I still spend New Year’s in the sun. My luck has held. The islands where I soldiered see me now well- heeled. I even play roulette sometime. And if I lose is that your hold on me? Your gift? A double zero to remind the hedger Every bet is off, and he the wager. A pang--it is not conscience--late but run amok; A little taste of ashes, on the lips of luck. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Do Not Gamble...11.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-06-16T13:40:12 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2005-06-16T13:40:13 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 9d494e75b52808d512cbdc03d139d81d Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/52991526ce373c3402e9c7ffe673769d.pdf d795ee30adf7e1bfd4448e15987f248a PDF Text Text Exercise for Twelve Tones "I'll bet that you've got ribs." "Of course I have; Who hasn't?" "No I mean I'll bet they show." "They show unless I put a lot of starch In all my shirts." "Who starches that stiff neck You've got?" "Ribs turn you on?" "On you they do." "Some places call it play-the-xylophone." "I call it out the bad air goes and in The good air goes. Or what." "Well, some for hooks And some for ladders. Me, I bruise." "You won't." "I won't if I can float my kidneys first." "Two Buds, Bartender." "How'd you get hung up On bones instead of muscles?" "Like you said, It's some for ivory and some for gut." "Or celluloid. Accordion's our thing, Wouldn't you say?" "Depends, Starch. Straps or squeeze?" � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exercise for Twelve Tones.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2006-02-27T16:36:23 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-02-27T16:36:29 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context e7bcea80d68a69a3820b022483655f8b Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/cc18b7350ec61569fff97c529cc5788f.pdf 1bc602cf9581e4e8904df89a4342f6e0 PDF Text Text Good Money after Bad The unemployed young man, arms strong and torso tapered, Has had his front teeth capped and acne scars sandpapered. Extravagance or wisdom, only time will tell, But it was that or join the Job Corps. Parallel Careers in modeling and auto racing, say, Are what he'd like, but aftershave close-ups? No way. And, too, he's serving out a one year D.U.I. The odds are, self-employment is his better try. There will be competition. "Man, the street's been fierce." But one can weight-train, buy another earring, pierce. This world's extreme injustice pains us, keeps, amazes. How few trust funds around; how many trust fund cases. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Good Money after Bad.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2006-02-26T14:04:51 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-02-26T14:04:51 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context ac42f2e580c196c4e56201ba07e96ea7 Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/4057e9c23683c68266337cbb8a9a9e0a.pdf f4df25974e42357a51d60c76d3d21ab0 PDF Text Text Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest A onetime neighborhood chain cinema, The pornographic movie complex has, Its street front unremodeled, much the look Of any witch’s house of gingerbread. It might well be an Arts and Crafts tea room In phoniest Victoria, B.C. Since what goes on inside could pass for rites Of aliens, a more appropriate Design might be Frank Gehry’s oddities Scaled down somewhat, or geodesic dome With mirrors on its inner surfaces, The better to entice voyeurs, and, curved, Enlarge endowments; be a Fun House plus. In sex what is desired is not ideals But templates: figures to be laid upon, Be possible to do, and capable Of frequent repetition. Sandman next, Dew Fairy after, in the chosen wood One’s lost in, any fantasy will do, And of our hungry actuality The Fourteen Angels, sexless, cannot know. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-02-27T18:16:04 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-06T22:29:59 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 77d20ec786ef280dc1d2be9b6db36cd4 Poems_for_Isobel TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/c33799af6bfa92234f9f9ec3a45616ac.pdf bc3331fa6f1d6f34972b125d8c7a14ca PDF Text Text He Decides Not To Play House We aren’t exactly All-For-Love-The-World-Well-Lost. The merest inconvenience is enough of cost To put us off: the ash tray out of place; the light Left on or not left on; a less than honor bright Bathtub; and-- in its way unmeaning’s quantum leap-The unknown name called out in sleep. Ignore it, since you can. You cannot out of hand Ignore upon your back a scratching wristwatch band. Wind-up or digital, better a short scar here Than time trochaic on a pillow by the ear. Perhaps watch-pockets were, for Lee’s dropouts and Grant’s, How bonding took. The Elgin came off with the pants. Our own desertion cult may fission but not fuse. Or is a touch cold fusion? It might warm with use, But habit is itself accretion that prevents. For turf-confirmed Old Hands, street Arabs folding tents And stealing is a clear best case.. Who comes to stay Misunderstands the desert. “Built on sand,” we say. Just now we are a meaningful relationship; Are Siamese identicals joined at the hip. The mattress-ticking too is something like a pain. I may get up und lass die Uhre alle steh’n. I’ll not deny. I like the sleep together bit. I’ll never be lifelong practitioner of it. As once was said in what would be a gallows jest If there had been a gallows, “Sleep on. Take thy rest.” (Not said of Arabs, street or otherwise. One finds, However, night is cushions, coffee, ash, flesh, minds.) Another name, this time my own. A toss in-place; Turn; ashen-scented fingers inches from my face. In full moonlight--I have a good eye for details-The Crescent conquers in the half-moons of your nails. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource He Decides Not To Play House.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-03-02T14:11:27 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-06T22:30:33 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 98ba8b23593f42f789abcbf30473cf4a Poems_for_Isobel TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/a638e7fc35b3cd01a0ff6202671b5933.pdf 9ae3d62266907764cf0beb28b9417d08 PDF Text Text The Imp of the Perverse The world is full of men whose dearest urge Is sex with Quasimodo or the corpse Of Alfred Douglas or with Eng and Chang, Whose own dear urges may not have to do With hobbyists. (Well, Bosie's might have). Seek And ye shall find; God help you if you do. The only worse outcome is to suspect That they find you; that you are some construct Outside normality. Hunchback, be off. Lord Alfred, put on boxing gloves and try Kickboxing with the freestyle Siamese. Do not, I pray you, zero in on me. I, neither item nor collector, march To one same drummer. Not, I add, The Little Drummer Boy. I do not stalk. Normality is the erotic point; In what I am attracted to, that is. Variety may be the spice of life, But spices, you remember, came to be From urgent need to hide the taste of rot. Most hunting is for game already high. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Imp of the Perverse.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2006-02-26T14:17:26 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-02-26T14:17:26 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 8af27fc41ddfcf38f4bf719128611b2a Poems_for_Isobel https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/93764fa9cda13a5426503638a98c4b1b.pdf 0bca07af7423c67eb31da5e4c2ecf01c PDF Text Text Incidental Music The deaf young man is nonetheless Inserting coins into the jukebox. Not by alphabet, he signs That he can feel vibrations. Doubtless, But is that his only reason? I approached him on the thought He is a fan of Berlin jazz. (Surprise: the Wurlitzer has Weill). But as he makes a second choice I see his method is not more Than eeny-meeny-miney-moe. It turns up Kitty Wells. If first Impressions count, he’s made his point: No one would think that he is deaf, And, contact made, he goes from there. Sex is, when all is said, non-verbal. Note: I do not say non-vocal. Leveling the playing field Or cashing in on its extremes, A muteness with a sound track scores. In failure to communicate One simply re-invents the rules. It was the silent screen, recall, That made “Great Lover’ household phrase. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Incidental Music.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-03-03T14:23:11 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-11-03T11:17:45 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context bbe966df84ed4c991aad0376057d51a0 Poems_for_Isobel TCBKS2