{"id":4174,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4174"},"modified":"2025-03-09T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:03:24","slug":"poems-to-and-about-jim-carroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/feature-articles\/poems-to-and-about-jim-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems to and About Jim Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Submitted by <a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x63;j&#x61;&#49;&#x35;&#55;&#x39;&#64;p&#x75;&#114;&#x64;&#117;&#x65;&#110;c&#x2e;&#101;&#x64;&#117;\">&#74;&#x2e;&#32;&#x41;&#46;&#x20;C&#x61;r&#x70;e&#110;&#x74;&#101;&#x72;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Index<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ted Berrigan:<\/strong> <a href=\"#tough\">&#8220;Tough Brown Coat&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#heroin\">&#8220;Heroin&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#amazing\">&#8220;Something Amazing Just Happened&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#anne\">&#8220;In Anne&#8217;s Place&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anne Waldman:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"#waldman\">&#8220;Poem for Jim Carroll&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tough\">TOUGH BROWN COAT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Ted Berrigan&#8230; For Jim Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tough brown coat<br>Tie with red roses<br>Green cord vest<br><br>Brown stripes<br>on soft white<br>shirt<br><br>white T-shirt<br><br>White man,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Tomorrow you die!<br><br>&#8220;You kidding me?&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"heroin\">HEROIN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Ted Berrigan . . . For Jim Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> (2) photographs of Anne\n                80 years old\n                        lovely, as always\n                                        a child\n                        under an old fasion\n                                        duress\n\nA Bibliography of Works\n        by Jack Kerouac\n\n                A white suit \n                        and a black dress\n                                w\/ high-necked\n                                                mini-skirt\n\n        strolling\ntwo by two\n\nacross   a    brown     paper    bag\n       above               The Relation  Ship\n\nwarm white thighs        &amp; floating bend   gia pronto\n           \n           my heart is filled with light\n                               al curry\n               this\nLife\nthat is\none, tho\nthe lamps \nbe many\n                &amp; proud      &amp; there's a breeze sort of\n                                lightly moving the top\n                of your head\n\n   &amp;            I'm going\n                way over\n                the white\n                                skyline\n                &amp; I'll do\n            what I want to\n &amp; you can't keep me here\n                        no-how\n\n        &amp; the streets are theirs now\n                        &amp; the tempo's\n                                &amp; the space.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"amazing\"><a><\/a>SOMETHING AMAZING JUST HAPPENED<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Jim Carroll on his birthday<br>by Ted Berrigan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">A lovely body gracefully is nodding\nOut of a blue Buffalo \n                        Monday morning\n                                        curls\nsoftly rising color the air\n                        it's yellow\nabove the black plane\n                beneath a red tensor\n\nI've been dreaming. The telephone kept rining &amp; ringing\nclear &amp; direct, purposeful yet pleasant, still taking pleasure \nin bringing the good news, a young man in horn-rims' voice\n                                                is speaking\nwhile I listen. Mr. Berrigan, he says, &amp; without waiting <br>for an answer goes on,\nI'm happy to be able to inform you that your request for\n        a Guggenheim Foundation Grant \nHas been favorably received by the committee, &amp; approved. When \n        would you like to leave?\n\nUh, not just yet, I said, uh, what exactly did I say with regards to \n        leaving, in my application...I'm a little hazy at the moment.\n\nYes. Your project, as outlined in your application for a grant for <br>the purpose of giving Jim Carroll the best possible birthday present <br>you could get him, through our Foundation, actually left the <br>project, that is,\n        how the monies\nwould be spent, up to us. You indicated, wisely, I think, that we know\n        more about what kind of project we would approve than you did,\n        so we should\nmake one up for you, since all you wanted was money, to buy Jim <br>a birthday gift. \n\nAha!I said. So, what's up?\n\nWe have arranged for you and Jim to spend a year in London,\n                                        in a flat\n        off of King's Row.\nYou will receive 250 pounds each a month expenses, all travel\n        expenses paid, &amp; a clothing allowance of 25 pounds each   per month.\n        During the year,\nAt your leisure, you might send us from time to time copies of  your London\nworks. By year's end I'm sure you will each     have enough new poems for two\nnew books,\nwhich we would then publish in a deluxe boxed hardcover edition,\n        for the rights to which we shall be prepared to pay a \n        considerable sum, as is your due.\nWe feel that this inspired project will most surely result in   the first\nmajor boxed set of works since Tom Sawyer &amp; \n        Huckleberry Finn! Innocents Abroad\nin reverse, so to speak! We know your poems, yours &amp; Jim's, will\n        tell it like it is, &amp; that is what we are desperate to  know! So, when\nwould you like to leave?\nImmediately, I shouted! &amp; Jim! I called, Jim! Happy Birthday!   Wake up!\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anne\">IN ANNE&#8217;S PLACE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Ted Berrigan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s just another April morning, St. Mark&#8217;s Place<br>Harris &amp; Alice are sleeping in beds; it&#8217;s far too early<br>For a scientific Message, on St. Mark&#8217;s Place, though it&#8217;s<br>the right place if you feel so inclined. Later<br>Jim Carroll&#8217;s double bums a camel from a ghost Aram Saroyan<br>Now, there goes Clark, friend from out of a no longer existant past<br>Into the just barely existent future, wide-awake, purposeful<br>As Aram Saroyan&#8217;s dad: a little bit more lovely writing &amp; then<br>Maybe a small bet on New York&#8217;s chances this morning. It&#8217;s not<br>Exactly love, nor is it faith, certainly it isn&#8217;t hope; no<br>it&#8217;s simply that one has a feeling, yes<br>You always do have a feeling &amp; over the years it&#8217;s become habit<br>Being moved by that; to be moved having a feeling,<br>So it&#8217;s perfectly natural to get up &amp; go to the telephone<br>to lay a little something down on your heart&#8217;s choice<br>calling right from where you are, in Anne&#8217;s place,<br>As to your heart&#8217;s delight, here comes sunlight.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"waldman\">POEM FOR JIM CARROLL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Anne Waldman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>journeying out to prepare the day<br>for a new look<br>stop looking<br>hear my identity<br>gibbering &#8220;mountains!&#8221;<br><br>every moment<br>come to life<br>no twilight struggle<br>truant or volatile<br>grouwing to light<br>bristlecones older<br>than mommy &amp; daddy<br><br>touch memory<br>dream of me<br>older, slimmer<br>imposter, exuberant<br>jejune &amp; jaunty<br><br>friend to you<br>vital brother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Index TOUGH BROWN COAT by Ted Berrigan&#8230; For Jim Carroll Tough brown coatTie with red rosesGreen cord vest Brown stripeson soft whiteshirt white T-shirt White man,&nbsp; &nbsp; Tomorrow you die! &#8220;You kidding me?&#8221; HEROIN by Ted Berrigan . . . 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