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Walking up Goliad listening to the morning song of the old trees, the irises are flying their colors beneath the soft parade of periwinkle clouds being pushed over the rooftops of the gentries three story condominiums just out of reach of the straining finger tips of the oldest trees the streets almost crowded for a…
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Tramp chapter 1 Deep Ellum Blues “I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.” ‘1999’ -Prince Mona was nothing special. If you saw her on the streets, you’d think she was just another Goth girl from the badlands, as unremarkable as Norma Jean before she discovered Marilyn. When she wasn’t…
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Bukowski In Hell dedicated to bad writers Charles Bukowski is in hell doing 14 billion sits up a day before bench-pressing the Earth and Venus by ramming his veined purple onion through the planets poles so he would have a bar long enough and strong enough to hold the weight of two worlds. After his…
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TASTE OF DEATH “Come back with your shield – or on it” (Plutarch, Mor.241) the parting cry of Spartan mothers to their sons. It’s hard to think when the dogs sniffing the floor, yard mans lawnmower whining, the hydraulic crush of garbage trucks, the radio playing trip hop and your old lady’s massaging your nuts. …
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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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Waiting for the Miracle. Watching her barefoot body moving to invisible music, she is a sentient flower dancing with the wind. And “I just want to destroy something Beautiful.”
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The Science of Poetry I Einstein’s incendiary ideas words arranged in an idea of order mathematical sequencing it is the intellectual alchemy of the dead watchmaker thoughts boiled in time reduced in a nanosecond of synaptic flash to the ashen essence of humanity the pure black symmetry of silhouette in shadow tarot cards tossed into…
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