if you rub the back of your child
at bedtime
his wife will be happy

Work drives you like wind
between suburban houses, emptying cans.
You are invisible as air

Tonight I saw Dustin Hoffman
walking down Lexington Avenue.
He lives on 61st Street

I was warm on the quadrangle
Warm on the grass by the library steps
Eating my sandwich

I still liked anyothertime,
anyotherplace. which means most
of my life, but it was now,

As soon as I climb into the car
I fold my dark blanket
and close my eyes against it

She called the white ducks with a soft
Clucking of her tongue and they came to
Her busy hands for the hard corn she shelled.

I am in your living room when you are not thinking of me.
I crawl in your lap, like an amphibian
just recently awakened from the sea.

most people have absolutely the wrong idea of how to go about cutting a throat, the right way to do it on animals anatomically similar to humans such as dogs, sheep, veal calves and very young pigs—emphatically not on full-grown pigs 

I am pleased to announce
Some of the things
That won’t concern me