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Monday, October 4, 2021

Ted Berrigan



Sonnet #15


 In Joe Brainard's collage its white arrow 

He is not in it, the hungry dead doctor. 
Of Marilyn Monroe, her white teeth white- 
I am truly horribly upset because Marilyn 
and ate King Korn popcorn,' he wrote in his 
of glass in Joe Brainard's collage 
Doctor, but they say 'I LOVE YOU' 
and the sonnet is not dead. 
takes the eyes away from the gray words, 
Diary. The black heart inside the fifteen pieces 

Monroe died, so I went to a matinee B-movie 
washed by Joe's throbbing hands. 'Today 
What is in it is sixteen ripped pictures 
does not point to William Carlos Wiliams.

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