8-word poem: THE LARRY & THE BOYS STORY

I just want
Somebody
With some
Fuckin' sense.

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It takes
A worried man
All day long.

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Hooray!
The election
Has become
Even more
Depressing!

iTuneage - recent baker's dozen

1. "Where Angles Go Trouble Follows" - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
2. "Walk On Hot Coals" - Rory Gallagher
3. "My Baby Gives It Away" - Pete Townshend & Ronnie Laine
4. "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" - Tom Waits
5. "My Little Kookenhaken" - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
6. "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" - Dead Or Alive
7. "Slither" - Velvet Revolver
8. "Step and the Walk" - The Duke Spirit
9. "21st Century Man" - D.L. Byron
10. "Angel of Death" - Thin Lizzy
11. "She's Going Back" - The Plastic Pals
12. "Mayonnaise" - The Smashing Pumpkins
13. "Heaven On Their Minds" - Jesus Christ Superstar Original Broadway Cast Recording

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Nothing says
Fuck you
To hope
Like despair.

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Full of shit
Is shit
Out of luck.

Upcoming Reading: This Wednesday, August 27th!

Fellow poet Steve Roberts (and fellow Steve, also) has invited me onto the bill at a reading series he curates on the hip & trendy Lower East Side.

Also reading will be Mike McDonough, whose work I am sadly unfamiliar with, though I do know that Mike - like Steve and myself - is a grad of The New School's MFA program. I look forward to meeting Mike in person and hearing him read.

I will be hawking chapbooks and reading poems - some short, some long, many vague and almost all about death - from forthcoming collections due to be released sometime before the end of the year.

Here are the particulars:

Steve Caratzas and Mike McDonough at The Reading
Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
7:00pm - 8:30pm
thereading@gmail.com

8-word poem

The Olympics:
Wake me up
When they're over.

8-word poem: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLES III

Farewell,
City by the Bay
You'll be missed.

8-word poem: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLES II

Beautiful weather,
Beautiful scenery;
But assholes
Are everywhere.

8-word poem: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLES I

Laid back—
But does
Anyone here
Get irony?

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The truth
Is out there.
In here, too.

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So many
Ways
To say
Goodbye;
Pick one.

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This
Is where
Reality
Has taken
Us to.

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Ready or not,
Here I come—
Ahem, go.

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In San Francisco,
No flowers
In my hair.

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All I need:
The despair
That I breathe.

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Olympics coverage
Has me craving
General Tso's chicken.

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I'm making
You up
As I go
Along.

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I don't know
How anyone
Lives a life.

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All this
Fear—
What purpose
Does it serve?

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There's a
Blind spot
Where happiness
Meets awareness.

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All this
And a
Fresh from prison
Haircut.

888 EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT OCHO OCHO OCHO HUIT HUIT HUIT

All sorts of wonderful acknowledgments this fine day, including numerous Facebook messages, virtual cupcakes, and other graphics; several phone calls; a delicious breakfast baguette courtesy of 7wordpoem; a very cute hockey puck size lemon cake; 2 original 8-word poems and this art work created by Corey Hasty:


(click on image to see actual size!)

Hooray! indeed.

Thanks all for a very happy birthday.

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Eight
     Eight
         Oh
             Eight

Infinities sideways
Sort of.

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Get busy living
Or get busy
Being born.

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I had
A good one;
It's gone
Now.

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I'm not always
Busted up
About overlooked
Rights.

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When your drive
Sparkles,
You're really onto
Something.

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What goes on
In your mind
Goes on.

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Now showing:
Brotherhood
Of The Traveling
Jock Strap.

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It's all
Over now
Baby
Black and Blue.