politics

  • Chapter 29   TRAMP: Burning Down The House On Belmont Street   “And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?”   And you may ask yourself, “Where is that large automobile?”   And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”   And you may tell yourself, “This is not my

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  •  chapter 24 TRAMP: Trying to be the Shepperd:  New Year’s Day 2001xxx     pt 1 & 2  ” The truth is, you’re the weak and I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.       -Jules Winfield       Wake up son we gotta get back to the room to get changed

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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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  • Tramp Sterling’s Girls (final draft) 4625 words “Sweet dreams are made of this who am I to disagree, traveled the world and the seven seas, some of them want use you. some of them want to be used by you. some of them want to abuse you. some of them want to be abused. Everybody’s

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  • TRAMP: Nothing Shocking 

    TRAMP: Nothing Shocking  Aaron woke up from the erotic dream into the carnal carnival surrounded by nightmare flesh forest of human limbs all entangled in a naked sprawl all around him. Everyone was still asleep, worn out from the previous night’s debauchery. The house was silent except for the sound of a half dozen dreamers

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  • 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: This is How the World Ends “This Is The End… My beautiful friend, the end…” In the end everybody dies, nobody gets out of this alive” -The Lizard King Mona was dressed in a long loose loose-fitting black cotton blend skirt that stopped somewhere between where her calves ended and her ankles began. The

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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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  • 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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  • 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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