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Monday, December 24, 2012
bob the bum's christmas
Sunday, December 16, 2012
pals, part 3: dangerous
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Friday, December 14, 2012
ace of night - 3. davenport 7 - 5297
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
pals, part 2 : jane
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poem
a sinking boat a flowing stream a rapidly expanding dream
a windswept grave
a crashing wave
an echoing note
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Monday, November 5, 2012
ace of night - 2: another old friend
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
near and far
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
all souls - a fragment
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
pals, part 1
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
ace of night - 1. a friendly conversation
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
the unread book
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
education of a cad
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
outlaw blues
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
tears of a clown
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frankie and johnny: a villanelle
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Friday, September 14, 2012
modern age
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nature's way
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
town tramp
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a mother's prayer
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
a strange story
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voyage to star 25, part 2: mrs wilson's diner
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Monday, April 30, 2012
the lady and the cowpoke - a fragment
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song of the damned number 21
i am just a lonely moocher with no present past or future and the windows watch me well on the rainy street to hell and my brain begins to hum for a taste of opium and its incandescent streams of fervid fleeting dreams i would sell my ragged soul for the tenth part of a bowl there's nowhere that i wouldn't slink for just one more - one more drink all you mandarins and missionaries in your mansions museums and libraries will you know a brighter final fate than the stranger dragging past your gate? |
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
i was the one
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
in the dark
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
jewelry
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
page from a notebook
1. sense escapes. the thing is left behind. 2. the former expansion of the essence surrounds the thing. 3. the expanded essence is the word. 4. a collision of expanded essences is an affair. 5. affairs are remembered. 6. what is remembered is an affair. 7. the escaped essence leaves the expansion behind, guarding the thing. 8. the thing growls menacingly at the expansion. 9. the escaped essence flies away, laughing. 10. laughter is an affair whose essence has escaped. 11. a thing whose essence has attempted to escape is a laughing matter. 12. but the essence of the thing, which is the thing itself, is no laughing matter. 13. an affair that is no laughing matter is a tough crowd. 14. the essence of the thing is a tough crowd. 15. a crowd with an escaped essence is tough. |
Monday, January 30, 2012
reunion in the rain
when you're lost in the rain in a back road in tennessee on christmas eve in nineteen forty-three and you see a light in the trees just up ahead and you wonder if you really wouldn't be better off dead and you push through the broken general store screen door the first thing you see is a leg sticking out on the floor and pappy looks up with a smile in his whiskers white and asks if it ain't just been one hell of a night this young lady here came at me with a knife it was all i could do to snuff out her miserable life excuse me sir while i drag her carcass outdoors as soon as i do my time is entirely yours you know you were here before in another life on the run with sheriff john brown's brand new young wife yes you escaped that time - escaped too well did you really think they forgot you down in hell? your eyes adjust to the smoky dismal scene lit by a single lamp of kerosene there's a knife on the counter, a bible and a magazine you take a step closer - and can't hold back a scream it's her on the cover - so dead yet so alive you left her in laredo in nineteen and thirty-five and her face you've carried since in your shrinking soul like an endlessly burning diamond - or piece of coal the magazine falls from your hand to the sawdust floor a sudden wind blows through the opening door it's over now - you know you're finally beat you hear pappy say, jeff, i've got someone here i'd like you to meet... |