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  • TRAMP: God Spoke To Me Once II

    chapter 10 TRAMP: God Spoke To Me Once II “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.” -Patti Smith God spoke to me once. Aaron fished around in his leather jacket’s inside pocket and pulled out a pack of Newport 100s while he talked. I thought you were an atheist? Brandon used his lemon-yellow Bic

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  • chapter 9 TRAMP: Writers’ Block Ten Years Running “It’s like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder How I keep from going under.” -Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five Mona wasn’t a very prolific writer. Her output had been limited to a few very short, intense pieces since they began doing the poetry gig.

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  • TRAMP: No Woman, No Cry 

    TRAMP: No Woman, No Cry    “my fear is my only courage”       -The Mandela Effect   “my feet is my only carriage”       -Bob Marley      Aaron casually strolled into the foyer and headed towards the sign-in sheet, letting the ALICE pack slide off his left shoulder onto the concrete floor as he greeted the doorman

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  • chapter 8 version III  TRAMP: Nathanial III The Drunker You Get, the Blacker You Talk – 2001  –Karla  “I wish I was special, but I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo.  What the hell am I doing here. I don’t belong here.”  -Damien Rice  Nathanial Percival Robertson III ran the fingers of both hands over the

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  • TRAMP: B 4 We Were Poets circa: 1999 “I got a little black book with my poems in it.” -Pink Floyd Aaron leaned over his worktable, his shoulder-length hair tied back in a short dreadlocked topknot of a ponytail, revealing the shaved sides and back of his head, his round wire-framed glasses at the tip

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  • TRAMP: Arbeit Macht Frei 

    chapter 4 TRAMP: Arbeit Macht Frei “To be free one must give up a little part of oneself.” -Hedwig Some people are always surprised when the talking heads announce staring into the cycloptic laser eye of satellite-fed camera with a televangelist practiced solemnity, the never-before-seen news of yet another disgruntled postal worker arriving at work

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  • chapter 3 TRAMP: For Those About to Die, We Salute You “You start a conversation you can’t even finish. You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything. When I got something to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once, why say it again.” —Talking Heads “Point, white!” shouted the black gi-clad referee, taking

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  • TRAMP: Orgasm 

    chapter 2 TRAMP: Orgasm “This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.” -The Lizard King “You want me to go down?” Big smile, wizened eyes heavy with lust, suddenly animated. She nods her head, moans a barely audible. “Yes.” She wants this she hasn’t had it like this in a while. Aaron and Mona were

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  • TRAMP: Organic Art 

    chapter 16 TRAMP: Organic Art “I’m sorta doing what Trevor did in ‘thump thump thump’ and Brandon did in ‘Burning The Effigy Of Kyle Vaughn’ and you did in your poem ‘Prayer’ but I didn’t really think about it, it just sort of happened on its own you know you were there you understand my

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  • TRAMP: No Speed Racer XXX

    chapter 22.1 TRAMP: No Speed Racer XXX “The sun has gone down and the moon has come upAnd long ago somebody left with the cupBut he’s driving and striving and hugging the turnsAnd thinking of someone for whom he still burns”—Cake Mona woke up alone. She sat up, rubbed her eyes, then looked around the

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