Scraps of Faith – Audio
A reading of Scraps of Faith: 54 Poems of Lucius Furius.
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To My Son
I Say There Is No Physical Beauty
Isn't Life a Pile of Shit?
The Bushman Speaks
No Garden Flowers for Me
Grandma's Funeral
Oh Gretchen, Wherever You Are
Reservoir (Night)
Be Free, Kathy
Reservoir (Day)
I Left My Mittens in the Smokies
Herr Generalfeldmarschall Rommel Takes Cyanide
Mr. Taylor [Mr. Thomas]
The Draft
Laguna Beach
Goddesses
Bobby
Poet on Deathbed Recounts Close Shaves
Spankings
The Poet Talks to His Former Loves
Swan-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A Youth Addresses the Council
A
Charm
But
Still
I
Should Have Known
Here's
to Those Who Suffer Voluntarily
I
Will Forget You, Presently
Melissa
Letter
to Sophie
In
Champaign
That Magic Summer
What's True
In the Fullness of Time
My
Children, As You Leave Home Little by Little
Love Is Not All
Babylon
Girl
of the Tzabarim Dance
This
One Blink
Star-stuff
The
Body's Machinery
What Taxes Me
I Miss You
Sickness and Art
Now
You Will Feel
We
Remember
Never Transplant a Poet's Heart
Adam
and Eve
Pocahontas
John Brown
A
Poem of the Millennium
Oh, Dad
A
Memorial Poem for Rembrandt (Who Never Had One)
Casablanca
Author's
Note:
I
apologize if you are offended by the use of obscenities in several of
the poems. They are absolutely necessary. The decision to include
them was not made lightly.
* Jerry/Lucius relationship explained here: http://www.humanist-art.org/lucius-jerry.index.html