TWO SOLDIERS KILLED, FOUR WOUNDED IN MORTAR ATTACK 12/26/2003
ONE SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN ATTACK 12/26/2003
ONE SOLDIER DIES IN ELECTRICAL ACCIDENT 12/26/2003
TASK FORCE 1ST AD SOLDIER KILLED DURING OPERATION 12/26/2003

THREE SOLDIERS KILLED IN ROADSIDE BOMB ATTACK 12/24/2003

Volume 3 of Van Gogh’s Ear is available with poems by: John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster, Lyn Hejinian, John Ashbery, Susan Howe, Gary Snyder, Alice Notley, Philip Whalen, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Robert Creeley, Eileen Myles, Yoko Ono, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sapphire, Amiri Baraka, Leslie Scalapino, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jean Valentine, Robin Blaser, Mary Burger, Felice Picano, Ruth Fainlight, Dennis Cooper, Sylvia Miles, Bob Perelman, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Bernstein, Judith Taylor, Tom Raworth, Marilyn Hacker, Quentin Crisp, Ron Silliman, kari edwards, W. D. Snodgrass, Eleni Sikelianos, Frank O'Hara, Lyn Lifshin, Tom Clark, Mary Angeline, Charles Baudelaire, and many more.

I just found a review of my visit and reading st. louis by kris Kkeinndienst
Who Do You Think You Are?
A Meditation on Identity Politics …

American comedian Lenny Bruce has been granted a posthumous pardon by the state of New York 40 years after he was convicted in an obscenity case.

it is attached by this - repealed by taxes and had several taste tests


if everyday I wake up - walk around - days in and walks out
if everybody would wake up and walk around and out
if the change that happens didn’t jiggle
if everybody or anybody who is anybody would get everybody’s body
if only individuals would not need to be so individual -
under the blue sky
silent without defeat
if times fell off the wall along with -
rubber things, plastic things
live things that plug into other things
linoleum, pink flamingos
microwaveable removable
redeposit situational commodities
(no I mean)
repositional reruns of situation comedies
it is clear you want to show off your originality, but do you have to?
clear fine celluloid interior
framed by insanity
if only everything was not an ember from surface fires
verbing true false side road headlines
crash site institutions with plans
if only a difference would walk in days in and days out
if only I could turn lead into gold
attached by this with several tests
if only I could repeal taxes
if I could just wake up and walk around

I could be everybody’s body

1ST ARMORED DIVISION SOLDIERS KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB 12/22/2003