Bizarre Acts of Poetry

Tom Swiss

Special thanks to my parents, to all my past teachers, and to Alan Parker, who got me started by inviting me to come see him read.

This is dedicated to the old crew at Planet X. Especially to those of my fellow loonies who kept showing up when the place burned down.

Bizarre Acts of Poetry

Copyright ©1993-1997 by Tom Swiss. All rights reserved.

Zeroth edition

An Infamous Production

• All Purpose Generic Blues
• `I wonder what birds think about
  aeroplanes?'
• Even the Moon is Blue
• `We invited Dionysus over for the party
  Friday night'
• `I burned all my pictures of you'
• A Bizarre Act of Kindness
• Poetic License
• `The man who owns nothing'
• Blood on Concrete
• `What do you do with mail for a
  dead man?'
• `I am a servant of Entropy'
• `I'm sitting in the rain waiting for you'
• `Would you trade your arms for wings?'
• `The phone awakened me at 4 a.m.'
• Proofs of Love
• Song for Night People
• Creed: A Personal Statement
• Election '94
• If Only
• Night Terror
• `Happy Earth Day!'
• `An angel's feet dont touch the ground''
• `Entropy always wins'
• The Second Coming:
  Tuesday, August 22, 1995
• Chimpanzee Wannabe
• `Hey, Mister Coffin-maker'
• Eight-Ball With the Devil
• Thread
• Fossils
• Revelations on the Revolution
• The Fire Inside
• Assorted Haiku
• Author's Note
• Colophon

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