The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters: poems

By Greg Masters

A collection of new poems, some of which settle with past bewilderment, some retaliate against immoral acts, while others try to match the lift of music and find delight in hill towns. Freud is imagined as a shrink of the old west and there's a formula for settling a check for a table with imbibers and non-imbibers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9780999894750

Greg Masters

When he arrived in Manhattan's East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg Masters attended readings and workshops at The Poetry Project atbSt. Mark's Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Along with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, he edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977–1985. In 1977–78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced a cable TV show, Public Access Poetry. From 1980–83, he edited the Poetry Project Newsletter. This is the 11th book of his writing from Crony Books.

Book preview

Detective Novel

No problem getting past

the night watchman.

He sauntered through

with his delivery order

as if he were legitimate,

lifting the bag up to the guard

as if flashing a badge

for all the world to see,

continuing on his way

to the bank of

elevators and on up

to the seventh floor.

Past 11 p.m. there was

little chance anyone

would still be in any

of the offices and

the quiet hallway welcomed

him, the opposite

of astonishment.

I could turn around and

it would be over, he thought.

But didn’t.

If I Could Cry

My friend Annabel

is good at crying.

In each of the last three

Zoom readings I

caught her on screen,

she choked up on a