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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Anselm Berrigan Anselm Berrigan is the author of Zero Star Hotel and Integrity & Dramatic Life, published by Edge Books. A CD, Pictures for Private Devotion, is available through Narrow House Records. Recent poems can be found on-line at gutcult.com and in The Best American Poetry 2004. He lives in New York City in the neighborhood in which he grew up, and is the Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. With his mother Alice Notley and brother Edmund Berrigan he has co-edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, due out this fall from the University of California Press.

from "Zero Star Hotel" Anselm Berrigan

The banana peel is an important part of the eco-system—E. Berrigan As we do what we do fine Independence bangs back In the wild lifelessness I am unable to handle shiny surfaces Part camera part bulldozer Poppa my pod fell apart On the way to the root station For forward thinkers and their socket slots Waving waves back In the iceman's days nicknames Were prevalent: Annie Annie Oakley Ansy Slem Arnold Anton Ralton Leston Selmton Tonton Selmselm Fuckton Cuntton Asston Workton A candy stained tongue boasts of disposable income Bees see marigolds blue Mummy was a rich brown pigment Production of carmine continues in the Canary Islands On land my pale camouflage becomes Inefficient, filling me with glee The road seems to buckle Buildings fold-in Cars come straight at me

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