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My Father’s Prison Letters
Today I found them
by chance and re-read them:
he tells me
it’s because of the drink that
he is in jail and that he is
going to stop...
Reverse Rumi
Always live in regret.
The past is ever present.
There are no new days; you are the same person you were before.
Believe that today will be...
Phoenix, 1965
In a park
near my home
some big fucker
who didn’t like
my face
took a swing at me.
I blocked
his right hand
with my left
& by chance
my Tiparillo cigar
smashed into...
A moth in the park
it’s 5.00 pm
still no luck
out in the cold
the apartment dreary
teenage boys cutting in front of me
to do their laundry
and smoke hash
on the dryer
i have...
Hollywood
saying goodbye
reading Leonard Cohen
by candlelight,
visualizing
bonfire night,
your birthday
were you still alive
under that streetlamp,
we could walk together
to your bench
and talk awhile
it’s what we always did best—
just talk,...
Sometimes I sit in a room
and listen to the silence
which isn't really silence
but a collection of many subtle sounds
similar to a television or radio
playing in the background
they are there...
Night Comes Down
Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire,
tombstones on the other,
a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper
scurry across the highway,
a skittish breeze is...
Mighty Fine Stripper from Portland
Her stage name was Cupcake. It’s not often that you meet a woman when her crotch is already in your lap. But fortuitous. As...



























