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free verse
spying an old ee cummings hard-back / lying deep in a dumpster once / at the recycling center, / i dove into the bin / and as my fingers grasped the book of verse, / still wrapped in it's dust jacket, / a crew-cut cop came up and yelled: / "hate to burst your bubble, buster, but you can't do that here!" -
IF ANYONE's LOOKING FOR ME, I'M NOT HERE
Without a warning, she broke my heart, left me standing here, tore me apart. Can't blame her though, it was all my fault: I was born too soon, she was born too late ~ sometimes life is ruled by fate, but I miss her like no other, she was something special, and I still love her... -
HAPPY NUEVO YEAR
So last night everyone cheered when the Times Square Ball Dropped on TV at a jammed Europa South bar-restaurant where a killer Portuguese R&R Band was doing a full-tilt Brazilian version of "Satisfaction" for a room-full of Salsa Dancers, I gulped some champagne and kissed all the girls within reach. Craving some nicotine and wearing a black ( Read more... ) -
A CAPE COD TALE
One mellow August weekend a while ago I was on a drinking tour of the Cape with an old Boston college pal named Greg, who is a very moody, conservative Budweiser-alcoholic, a pasty, darked-haired "Black Irish" Catholic from Dorchester who hates the entire Kennedy family but likes Jack Kerouac. He's a former altar-boy whose idea of a good time is ( Read more... ) -
SILENT BOB STRIKES AGAIN
So Monday local hero & superstar Director Kevin Smith returned to Red Bank, NJ to celebrate the recent release of "Clerks 2" by "meeting & greeting" more than 1000 fans at Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book store, shaking hands & signing anything & everything from 2:45pm in the afternoon til 4am the next morning! Then Tuesday night, rested- ( Read more... ) -
ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT
One hot mid-Summer Saturday night, my girlfriend and me went to a crowded, rowdy & very stoned college party on an old abandoned farm in the middle of the pine barrens and looking for some privacy after midnight, high as kites and carrying plastic cups of beer, we wandered under a glowing full moon about 50 yards across an open pasture of three- ( Read more... ) -
BUTT BUTT BUTT
So 19 year old, 5'6", 98-pound honey-blond brown-eyed Alyssa just tried to hit me up for a thousand bucks for an operation ~ she thinks her butt's too skinny & wants implants for a classic Latina "bubble-butt" ~ and I refused saying "But your butt's perfect the way it is ~ I'll give you a thousand bucks just to leave it alone!" ~and she pouted ( Read more... ) -
ROLLING STONES ROCK SUPER BOWL
For my money, the highlight of the Super Bowl was the ROLLING STONES opening the half-time show with the full-tilt rocker "Start Me Up" and singing "you'd make a grown man cry / you'd make a dead man cum..." for 2 billion people around the world & NO-ONE complained to the FCC!!! Not yet, anyway... "Rough Justice" and "Satisfaction" were icing on ( Read more... ) -
HIS BITE is WORSE than HIS BARK
Life is full of surprises & it's funny how often what we've assumed to be true isn't: I have an big-hearted bearded old friend of Russian descent named Alex who I don't see very much but who was like a brother to me when we were kids. Some people call him "Crazy Alex" and he frequently has, um, "problems" with the Authorities. Once it took six ( Read more... ) -
WET DREAM
Holy Fuck ~ a gold crescent of warm sunshine frames your face in honeyed shadow in the cool curtained winter afternoon window-light in the dim blue room brass bed: rolling over on your belly, nuzzling the pillow, eyes closed in a sweet dream, sprawled in languor on the soft cloudy comforter in a pink negligee, smelling like wildflowers on a hot ( Read more... )