poems

  • Never let the Motherfuckers take your Balls “I may not be a poet of the people,  but I have always been a poet for the people.” I feel sorry for all of those poor Bastards  out there writing their poems  for a bunch of suburban self loathing sycophants w MFA in creative writing courses all over

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  • TRAMP: Epilogue: Memento Mori “And I’m bleeding, and I’m bleeding, and I’m bleeding Right before the Lord All the words are gonna bleed from me And I will sing no more” ‘Seven Nation Army’ -The White Stripes Sunrise, while his host still slept Aaron quietly baptizes his face in cupped hands filled with warm water

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  • TRAMP: Who Do You Read? 

    TRAMP: Who Do You Read? “Writers Write.”  -Paul Farmer  Aaron was in awe of Trevor and Brandon when he first met them he had never met people with the ability to quote endless streams of poetry at will before and he thought that their poetry was phenomenal. They must have given him over a hundred

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  • TRAMP: People Are Stupid 

    TRAMP: People are Stupid -Terry Goodkind  Did you know the original title of that song by the Doors was people are stupid but the guys in the band convinced Jim to change the last word from stupid to strange? It was the stupid questions that people ask me all the time that made me say

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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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  • 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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