The Continual Condition

died 9 april 1953 -- thanks for the luck -- my art form -- rejected -- full circle -- continual condition -- let's have some fun -- to kiss her long dark hair -- waste -- recess bells of school -- wasted profession -- strange morning -- feeling good in the new neighborhood -- this kind of fire -- unemployed -- tough cob -- last race -- my soul is gone -- theory -- mor than ow -- dog times -- I might get traded -- faux pas -- about a worried reader of my works: -- agnostic -- good place -- legend -- you've seen it on the barstool next to you -- never -- hot sweaty day in August -- news item -- comeback -- this flag not fondly waving -- mannequins -- my answer -- under the suckerfish sun -- I am chastised -- fine madness -- consistent sort -- old movie star -- trying to dry out -- consummation -- before the 7th race -- morning after -- heavy dogs in cement shoes -- down the hatch -- tragedy? -- listening to the radio at 1:35 a.m. -- perfect silence -- mirror mirror on the wall -- parts dept. -- dear editor: -- lack of a common interest -- I'm upstairs now -- as Buddha smiles -- what have I seen? -- correspondent wrote bitterly: -- moving toward age 73: -- I saw a tramp last night -- mountain of horror -- last winter -- bent -- bayonets in candlelight.