poetry

  • 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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  • Poetry in the Time of Fascism 

    Poetry in the Time of Fascism   “A coward dies a thousand times before his death,   but the valiant taste of death but once.”   -Julius Caesar   -for Federico García Lorca   and the revolutionary spirit in us all.   Lorca fearlessly fought them in Spain   a poet standing against Francos  

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  • TRAMP Jen 26

    TRAMP Jen 26 “And I go insane, like I always do And I call your name, she’s a lot like you” -Lindsey Buckingham After nearly a year of celibacy for the sake of his art, Aaron lost his virginity, poetically speaking, with Jen. Mona saw Jen first; she was hard not to notice, not because

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  • TRAMP: Muse 

    TRAMP: Muse “White trash, get down on your knees Time for cake and sodomy… I am the god of fuck I am the god of fuck” -Marylin Manson Tavah Allison Frankfurt possessed the strongest legal mind most would ever encounter. She was a favorite of the judges and lawyers she clerked for. You wouldn’t know

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  • chapter 14  TRAMP: Dean Moriarty is an Asshole  “Dean Moriarty is a first-class asshole.” said Tavah to no one in particular after reading the last words of ‘On the Road’. She closed the book and laid it on the poolside table next to her 151 Texas tea. She picked up the brown and green plastic

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  • TRAMP: Solipsism 

    TRAMP: Solipsism Mona found herself matching up her features with Aaron’s, wondering what their kids might look like. He wasn’t attractive according to the Greco-Roman standard of beauty, but she had observed that both women and men checked him out. He looked half his age, his eyes were large, almost doll like so much so

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  • BEW

    BEW Beloved  Screaming Volcano Goddess’s AA A Muse A A She knows things secret things  Things he doesn’t even want to know  She knows where the poetry is hidden  Inside of my black box  Hidden on the bottom  Of the crimson sea of bloody dreams  Where the nightmares  My mother rode to hell on hide  Till I’m

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  • Isaiah Jones versus the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Day One Grounded; the Wrong side of the Buoy* Chapter 5 Galveston to Key West: prelude; January 1st, 2022 “Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, look where my hand was Time isn’t holding up, time isn’t after

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  • The Last Time I Saw Type O Negative: An Historical Little Epic of Empyreanfor T. W.by JD Cloudy “Loving you was like loving the dead” -Type O Negative The last time I saw Type O Negative was in early 2001-2002. I can’t remember the name of the venue; it was the same place where we

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  • Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea: A 21st Century Odyssey “Kill All White People II*”        “I’m a nigga you’s a nigga,   he’s a nigga, she’s a nigga,   wouldn’t you like to be a nigga too?”   -NWA  “It’s okay to hate white people.” Sascha grinned, you need to free yourself and acknowledge that

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