books

  • TRAMP: The New Romans 

    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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  • Tramp: Mia Churchill 

    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: ANDRÉ and AARON

    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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  • TRAMP White Rabbit Season

      TRAMP White Rabbit Season   “One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice When 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…

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  • TRAMP: Sunday, SundaY, SUNDAY 

    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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  • TRAMP: Eat The Pussy 

    TRAMP: Eat The Pussy Aaron, can I ask you a personal question? The big man in Dickeys and Timberlands, wearing a blue, black, and grey plaid shirt with only the top button fastened, his pot belly covered by a white wife-beater. Dion adjusted his large rectangular glasses, pushing them back up the bridge of his…

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  • chapter 13 TRAMP: Poetry in the time of Apocalypses New Year’s Eve 1999 Aaron wasn’t panicked; he rationalized this move as a transitional phase. He didn’t want to move out of his apartment. There was nothing special about it to outsiders, but this was the first time in his life that he had a place…

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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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