essay, critique, literature, rant

  • TRAMP: The South Side (South Dallas Blues)  “You know the boys in the hood are always hard.   Come talking that trash we’ll pull your card.   Knowing nothing in life but to be legit,   Don’t quote me boy ‘cause I ain’t said shit.”   -Eazy E   -NWA   “What choo doin?”  

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  • American Woman  1999 DMT (part 1)     “Don’t come hangin’ ’round my door         I don’t wanna see your face no more         I got more important things to do         Than spend my time growin’ old with you”         -Lenny Kravitz     Monika’ Elisabeth Whittaker didn’t have any female friends, but today she’s trying to set her best friend Aaron

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  • TRAMP: Looking Forward final edit  by Joey Da’rrell Cloudy   Nathan and Mona were both looking forward to Aaron’s arrival. Besides enjoying his company, his presence forestalled their quarreling. Things had become difficult between them since Mona stopped having sleeping with Nathan as she began to pursue a serious relationship with Aarons young poetry mentor Trevor Dixon.

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  • The Texas School Book Depository the sixth floor museum at Dealey Plaza. I have never visited this place but I have driven by it hundreds or possibly thousands of times. I simply do not understand the attraction. If I were visiting Washington D. C. I would not want to visit Ford’s theatre.Tourist are just weird. There

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  •  TRAMP: White Rabbit Season  “One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon’t do anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she’s ten feet tall” -Jefferson Airplane The bullet from the old man’s 22 caliber semiautomatic pistol must have clipped its spine and its little rabbit brain was terribly confused

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  • Now That Is A Real Gentle Man It is trying to rain again and I am trying to catch the bus to see you.  I ride the metal beast drowning in the cacophonous roar of vapid   Conversationalist ignoring the hostile little faces of the tribe   As we all ride from Westside lead poisoned slums to the

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  • “We who are about to die salute you.”  for Jack Johnson, Joe Lewis and Mohammad Ali      The title of this anti-poem, about death and taxes was originally ‘Killing Two Birds with One Stone’. Then it was shortened to ‘Two Birds with One Stone’. That wasn’t blowing my skirt up so I changed it to

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  • And It Was Sweet 

    And It Was Sweet  When I was about seven years old, I guess it was the summer of ’69. My father hit my mother for the first and last time After the fight we, my mother, little brother and I moved out of our white wood framed two-bed room house in Oakcliff 2607 Overton road

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  • Kool aid and Antidepressants JOEY CLOUDY·WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015·1 MINUTE I find it humiliating to have to take  antidepressants antipsychotics and mood stabilizers yet it is such a small price to pay to stay out of the mad house, jailhouse or the streets of the southern slums with the rest of the dregs of the

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  • The White Woman’s Burden “When women go wrong, men go right after them.” — Mae West “Women are the only exploited group in history  to have been idealized into powerlessness.”  –Erica Jong “She’s a rich bitch ya’ know, she was raised by maids.” —Steve Zissui Our master of ceremonies has just been informed that we

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