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TRAMP: The Show Must Go On “Now I’m naked Nothing but an animal But can you fake it For just one more show?” ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ -Smashing Pumpkins Brandon. Do you ever get nervous when you read your stuff? Aaron inquired over the noise of passing Elm street traffic. No. Why do you ask?
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chapter 11 TRAMP: A Song Ain’t Nothing But A Poem Set To Music – Hank Williams Xavier had been working security here since they renovated the Santa Fe building and turned the old warehouse into lofts. The place had been renovated with the help of taxpayers’ dollars for Dallas’ burgeoning urban chic. It was an
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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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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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chapter 12 TRAMP: I am the passenger 1999 “I look up, the stars write themselves, And at this very moment someone spells me out.” -Octavio Paz The bedraggled old white woman, the county hospital psych ward issued plastic coated identification bracelet on her left wrist her only jewelry boarded the train in the underground Mockingbird
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BEW Beloved Screaming Volcano Goddess’s AA A Muse A A She knows things secret things Things he doesn’t even want to know She knows where the poetry is hidden Inside of my black box Hidden on the bottom Of the crimson sea of bloody dreams Where the nightmares My mother rode to hell on hide Till I’m
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chapter 44 excerpt titled “Isaiah Jones vs the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Tainted Love: The Rowing Song* ‘The Rowing Song’ Round the world and home again That’s the sailor’s way Faster faster, faster faster There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There’s no knowing where we’re rowing Or which
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Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) The Big Blue: This is What the Water Said At 108 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Isaiah halted his free dives descent, holding his position in the depths. Above him, the 44-foot sloop the SS Exodus held her place, using an AI-directed guidance
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Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Juneteenth 2021: The Griot in Galveston June 19th, 2021, Galveston, Texas/Potter’s Field “This is what the earth taught me.” -JDC “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” -Steve Biko Penelope Stockard Bedowitz wasn’t certain what circle it
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