SOTÈRE TORREGIAN: 2 Poems

for Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol

                 First Day On The Job

Shepherd him milk & sugar

12 o'clock among unicorns

time of blue veils

mummified Gramercy

My impressario message eaten up

ache in my crotch

I arrive at The Friends   I am sailing by way

of the sky

bus September boat with vacant windows

thank-you I am weak

O friendly tamarack

                     I'm coming with my little chair

insignificant when you manhandle God

End of my Poem

my coat a lalop girl on a dead rock

something in the air with telephones

the twin end of the day

like an atlantic squall

I can't always voice

my lyricide

                       Last Day On The Job

Forget us: alpine flowers deer

I wasn't to last for long

Forget us beards escorted by dogs

coming out of the white portals for exercise

Send her back to California with his eyes

says the kind old Good Humor Man

Send YOU to Robespière's Thermidor

where your last day of fire a mountain

of children that come up to you & say

I don't remember meeting you Goodbye

fatal hour matrons Third Avenue

And unseen indescriminant princesses who shatter

wine bottles on the lumespento traffic lights

Catshit cloud overhead while you're king

of pencil-sharpeners!

                                                                     1964

                                               From Andy Warhol's

                                        (Intransit) Monster Issue

Sotere Torregian, "2 Poems" from “I Must Go” (She Said) “Because My Pizza’s Cold”. Copyright © 2002 by Sotere Torregian.  Reprinted by permission of Skanky Possum.

Source: “I Must Go” (She Said) “Because My Pizza’s Cold” (Skanky Possum, 2002)