“it is not exactly right to label you as a poet” and this is perfect I sometimes don’t wanna be known as a human being usually it’s a white male that goes on a rampage with his gun I point this out and they laugh saying they’re taking off tomorrow but I say you should…… Continue reading Burn Bright Burn Away
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BGK – Feature
A reminder to Houston folks. Next Wednesday is my featured poetry reading at Notsuoh. You should come, bring friends, pets, and poems (there will be an open mic., too). Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Time: 8:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Notsuoh Coffee House Street: 314 MAIN ST. between Preston and Congress Houston, TX
Belief and Technique (Jack Kerouac)
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, a list of thirty “essentials.” 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside your own house 4. Be in love with your life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form…… Continue reading Belief and Technique (Jack Kerouac)
Where You From?
I’ve more blues songs in me than I realized Near the end of the book now. They’ve thrown a three day party at the house for Japhy’s going away, but he and Ray broke away and went hiking into the hills. Japhy is known for cooking from very simple ingredients. Roy (Kerouac) is getting drunk…… Continue reading Where You From?
Day 28
Both microphones at Nostuoh, pulling them close together: “I’m gonna do a little duet up here,” and “I’ve got so many styles I need more than one mic.” The drinks were flowing. Three poems, the first quite mellow, the rest hard-hitting. Doesn’t matter what I say of all that, the stage performance, only that I’m…… Continue reading Day 28
Destroyed Eyes
It is like a new life of writing but with old allergies for the eye, the irritation how it kills rub after rub, the knuckles digging deep and hateful and still more to go. What’s in the air is in the world and you can sweep it off a step, it’s just by your feet.…… Continue reading Destroyed Eyes
A Place To Put Us
A few minutes from now will be the anniversary of me plopping out into the world once again, if that kind of things happens, you know, reincarnation, reinventing the self. 1:14 AM. We see this painting of Christ where he’s coming through the canvas, just hands and feet, no face, the face obscured. My friend…… Continue reading A Place To Put Us
The Room
started out this one poem talking about the fan blades on the ceiling how they spun and there was the fridge buzz and then as the poem grew I went back around erased those details the fan and fridge gone! those two friends that both kept cool as long as the electricity kept with it…… Continue reading The Room
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Month of January
This is my birthday weekend. I’ll spend a little time gathering up some writing since things have been a little quiet. So far, here’s some stuff from January. It was cold and rainy and chilly then, for Houston – I listened to Circle Jerks, read Ishmael, hung out with friends, dinner at my house, bread,…… Continue reading Month of January
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