THE DOLCH STANZAS for Maxine I he and his friends burned them then they went home and looked at it again they walked about a day that night black blankets on their backs they walked full of good piss for them to hunt it down was far and away a black look can one jump onto a track that way four said they were into it six said so too by the way their hoofs were charred II my little red one has not time but for to eat and play with me today no sleep at all alight with what to do on yellow back wages tough against tonic blue so drum on by all means music ages old and go let down the spread to warm the back look scan and run down the one to ten in him beside her so they say and run up to do it for now III put it away he gave it to him she thought it over they ended up at brown's little was said of each and every one at six the sun jumps down little by little in its place and you can see into what's left of what there is to do IV it can move fast she is said to have seen it go once once and for all by the white way it left out her one look far away and out of the blue to get from it to her and back is said to look as white when it is late and you can see V the old eye can read anything at all with one little old yellow look VI I would pull if I got right but am stopped by the funny take off then cold sleep I take and drink and ride fast where I sit pretty well over the edge I think best before it starts to hurt and wash clean draw grow pull and spar I is no where VII together or on right what works there tell us what would carry the bundle through those dark woods important universal always holds bring some we want to carry enough to eat out of our hands VIII they keep a pretty gum between them it sings down in this well they put cheap pants on and hold their fly open to help the light make three circles around this in time to black and wash hot bricks in the wall the cut starts up among them a laugh never sit on those first long rounds they cry IX or why think ask try out new hold if they sleep just as off as always put it to them like this say here this want to be clean open not done wants to know X if it's got ten hearts it will almost take off with blood if afraid there's another door in the tower then is always before no longer than it is round this is ten come to think of it who ever did think not one or two but big red the fly XI she said that man went where I was about to get she said the bus stops and lets her little girl off the sun is light green with hot work we eat a hot dog and go back to work XII how did these get here I wonder what's small always does now come away said a piece of one once to please upon that best and warm hold I will become only and not take of what's given together or not but come back said the one take a look at these XIII you stop only to go hard against black wood pull it down into the cold saw and get that going again which is sharp so to cut out so much crap that's put up with make this out as just like always and you'll walk to help XIV everywhere they went they let off steam they let off blue and heat they wanted to carry you who were they they didn't tell me (full moon) one of them had wide teeth when he stood up to be about eight days old with light (full moon) XV you have to pay your tax when you are found dead many wish to eat much green before they rot I have been one to always bank off the rim as I said before you can tell where the old play breaks backs and must run down to even see where you are you yourself not what some person says it is like XVI when I try to take a step my foot lands beforehand like the ground is just there it's funny you find out you knew all along XVII off the pig that robs us of what we say to each other that should be small and live not that big laugh about how to sit and wait for some high answer to put down what's plain and wide XVIII he washes her back clean every which way he gets big to carry her around and around under what is they cum inside wave XIX I do not like the way that fly ran under the chair those bushes pushed through that fence are enough now songs want my head back where I sat once I got up and drew the plan XX I was just thinking you should do right because that guy in the yellow car is a cop XXI something for everyone there is something for everyone at the beach in uneven lines white water and wind blows hair in eyes seven faces in and out of line got tans from the sun it is fun to see them play just like some one drew a line they play with it and the eyes have it to look at again as many times as it takes to see XXII when you get to where you can roll and see out a number of numbers show forth on a kind of sun it moves back of grey sky to make your way in each place more clear seeing not dim by dint of what's not seen Copyright © Kit Robinson 1976. The Dolch Stanzas was published by This in an edition of 300 copies, of which 26 were lettered A-Z and signed by the author. Printed at the West Coast Print Center.