September 2011
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how I justified my neighbors death
He looked as if he was searching for a dropped contact lens
Red in the face sure, but it’s fucking summer in Florida
Red and sweating all
I stuck my face back into my phone
Reading the same thing I read a minute before
I will see only this screen
I will see only this screen
He does look a little distressed
He’s 6’ 6” with a wrench-bang voice and a fuck-off attitude
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for Lovecraft
It’s been strange weather in the Bermuda Triangle
The hurricanes coming straight at us and then turning sharply to the right or left
What is she shielding us from
Does she protect us at all
The warm south where Cthulu came to rest
In breathing waters
Dead Spanish at his breast
So lie there sleeping
Rolling the fog
The embers of empires speaking, forgetting all they saw
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Book Porn: the luck of the world →
henrycharlesbukowski:
throughout the years I have gotten letters from men who say that reading my books has helped them get through, go on. this is high praise indeed and I know what they mean: my nerve to go on was helped by reading Fante, Dostoevsky, Lawrence, Celine, Hamsun and others the word
August 2011
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Always the seams
“I want to find the place between melodrama and talking about my balls. I’m not sure what is wrong with me.”
The camera pulls away from the lone lamp atop the desk
silhouette of the author
Beard carefully combed to give the almost-Marx profile
Cock most definitely large and finely haired
balls like mice around the Maypole
He radiates
and I want to be at his lips
Why does...
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A distant reply to Sarah Gay
Through months of nauseous confusion and misunderstood grasping
late night drinks and early morning red eye
Through headphones loud enough to drown out reason
loud enough to rouse in the dozing hypnotic
days kneaded and rolled into one stale loaf
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Know all that may be, during quietÂ
marijuana bedroom desk coffee
biting the inside of my cheek again and again
I just want to be honest but...
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momentary sister
We sat in our small office. Three desks end to end like a bar that only served Folgers and mediocrity. Through the window the storm beat ragged on the boulevard and across to the Health Department parking lot. “Infants cannot eat solid food,” I told the guy from Support. “Who says they can’t eat solid food?” My coworker turned to him and said, “They can’t....
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collaborations that should have been
The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
Then a band of demons joined in and it sounded something like this.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charlie Daniels
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one evening on the patio
My friend described it as thinking through quicksand. The anise, the ice, the apparatus. It seemed more like thinking without the body. As if my eyes were placed just a foot forward and above my head in a tiny, insubstantial pool. Viewing the conversation with yourself in the periphery. To go any further felt unnatural. Not that I owe nature reverence. I don’t choose to walk into the ocean...
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The difficulty of spontaneous sobriety
I felt a flash of generative heat move across my face. We were leaning against each other trying to remember where we came from. The commonality I sought was found, to my surprise, on the precipice of a dark evening. This dark evening. With the tempest roar of possibility slavering, fang and breath, inches from our faces. It was so hard to think.
We focused. Hope wouldn’t break our...
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