poetry
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chapter 23 TRAMP: New Yearz Eve The Pit 2000-2001 – (parts 1 & 2) “They were all in love with dyin’, they were drinking from a fountain That was pourin’ like an avalanche comin’ down the mountain” -The Butt Hole Surfers/Pepper New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2000 Since walking in on Ernest’s party, the week
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TRAMP: Anarchy in the Used Book Store “We’re so pretty, oh so pretty.” -Sex Pistols So, what do you think? He looked up distractedly what do I think about what? Those two showing up here today with her fiancé, who we’ve never seen in the year since I’ve been working here. I thought he was
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TRAMP: People are Stupid -Terry Goodkind Did you know the original title of that song by the Doors was people are stupid but the guys in the band convinced Jim to change the last word from stupid to strange? It was the stupid questions that people ask me all the time that made me say
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TRAMP: The New Romans Desiree bumped into Tavah when she went upstairs to use the bathroom. Tavah was hanging with her coworker Erica, in the room she rented to Aaron, smoking pot. Erica was the closest thing to a celebrity in the room being the niece of an internationally renowned reggae super star, an aspiring
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chapter 17 TRAMP: Mia Churchill “Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you should know.” -Simon and Garfunkel Mia Churchill was at least a decade older than Aaron but he had fallen instantly in lust with her over a year ago from the moment he first laid eyes on the 5′ foot
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TRAMP: Death Makes Angels Of Us All -the Lizard King Mona didn’t speak, and Aaron didn’t need an explanation; he understood there was nothing left to say. After a while, she would begin to get a little anxious in a place with so many people and so much noise, the same way
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TRAMP: ANDRÉ and AARON “I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted one time to see you laughing I only wanted to see you Laughing in the purple rain” -Prince André wasn’t called André by anybody except his momma and his wife to everybody
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The reason we walked a half mile to the drug store after midnight on a cool fall night it really is my fault. You see I write longhand in a black and white speckled notebook and tonight I have run out of India ink for my fountain pen. It is nothing special as far as
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TRAMP: Sunday, SundaY, SUNDAY “This is the end beautiful friend the end.” -the Lizard King It was Sunday, June the tenth. Aaron got in the shower and let the water get as hot as he could stand beat against his skin. When the hot water ran out, he stepped out of the shower and dressed
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chapter 25 TRAMP: Katariina Sapir Mueller – 2000 “I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now, entertain us” —Nirvana Katariina Sapir Mueller, the unofficial punk matriarch of Deep Ellum street poets, looked up from the chapbook of her old poems she was reading as her bespectacled coworker, Bryant, tapped her on the shoulder
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