YOU KNOW YOU’RE ANTI-SOCIAL WHEN YOU PREFER A LIFE IN QUARANTINE I spent 14 days in quarantine which i Saw as being potentially 20160 minutes Of just sitting staring at my four walls Worried that slowly I’d be going out of My mind but it passed easily in a haze Of smoking words and films […]
Read more "BRADFORD MIDDLETON – YOU KNOW YOU’RE ANTI-SOCIAL WHEN YOU PREFER A LIFE IN QUARANTINE"Holding On Oh, but I am not about death. I am not about rejection or letting go. I want to open my soul like a pair of arms and embrace it all– the beauties of this world– to gather them in like lovers or little lambs. To hold on, to hold on, to the sun-kissed […]
Read more "Dr. Peter Scheponik – HOLDING ON"Terminal I stood at the airport carousel waiting.I was outside looking downseeing how solitary my world had become.Where had all the other passengers gone?Then suddenly the airport was full of people.The carousel was full of baggage.Nothing but black suitcases and overnight bags.And it no longer mattered which one you grabbed.One by one, they were taken.Some […]
Read more "ROBERT CASTAGNA – TERMINAL"Religion The Dude was here The Dude’s a saint Saints pick their teeth Saints spread like wildfire Wildfire eats oxygen Wildfire purifies Purify your thoughts Purify your chant Chant for Godtopia Chant for redemption Redemption for massacre Redemption for torture Torture to convert Torture to believe Believe in deep alchemy Believe heretics will confess Confess […]
Read more "RIKKI SANTER – RELIGION"SON OF A son of a pinon son of opinion son of Independence Day son of the wind in my prepubescent stash son of sound, Son House, Sun Records son of Sun Ra son of a C looking for an H to “ch” or an “S” looking for an “H” to SOHO son of a […]
Read more "TIM STALEY – SON OF A"The Toy in Trouble After Harryette Mullen & With Apologies to Paul Simon These are the ways of lyricals and blunders. This is a long list of falls. The way the stammering fallows us in so much. The way we mistook it all. The way we took to a miscreant congregation that thinks it’s flying […]
Read more "TERRY LUCAS – THE TOY IN TROUBLE"Cool Song I remember I was 10 years old and was playing in the living room One sunny Saturday morning As my sister scrubbed the kitchen floor on her hands and knees Hair tied in a bandana The plug in zenith am radio with the big pink dial on the bench Playing the popular songs […]
Read more "JOE FLAMBO – COOL SONG"NOTES ON “LOW” The melody turns in on itself with descending notes Ascending Descending Turning back and forward To seesaw percussion The piano scales into itself with ascending notes Ascending Descending Turning around To meet the trumpets heading the other way Five notes Back and forth the same five notes Fast and slow the same […]
Read more "MARC JANSSEN – NOTES ON “LOW”"Dog Mom Haiku At Petco the dog shampoos smell great. Can’t decide. Can’t. I buy them all. ~ Interactive dog toys. Buy one to fill with treats. Hazel will love it. ~ Now you know. Adult supervision at Petco. That’s what I need. Yikes! ~ Hazel hates bath time. I smear peanut butter on the […]
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