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Eddie calls you late Monday night: breathless, voice reed thin, anxious; he breaks the news: They got Ando, busted him at a party. Eddie saw--a drunken insult, a shoving match, the cops and a bag of cocaine.It is nothing new. The same shit, the same trouble as all the other angry youg men just hungry for a piece of it all. I have heard it before ( Read more... )

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Eddie calls you late Monday night: breathless, xx, anxious; he breaks the news: They got Ando, busted him at a party. Eddie saw--a drunken insult, a shoving match, the cops and a bag of cocaine.It is nothing new. The same shit, the same trouble as all the other angry youg men just hungry for a piece of it all. I have heard it before, and ( Read more... )

Unemployed. Broke. No prospects. Life makes me tired. Gotta hustle just to get by: take an inventory of everything you have, and everything you could do without ( Read more... )

Stand your ground, dig in with both feet. Fists up--forearms in front of your face. Protection your neck, vital organs before all else. Remember to breathe, feel the air ragged in your throat as you gasp trying to force it down ( Read more... )

Stand your ground, dig in with both feet. Fists up--forearms in front of your face. Protection your neck, vital organs before all else. Remember to breathe, feel the air ragged in your throat as you gasp trying to force it down ( Read more... )

"let me begin by reintroducing myself--
alexandra supertramp."

pleased to meet you.

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IS IT TIME to come out of hiding? To stop covering my face and eyes, to raise my face to the sun: I want no longer to be this strange, scared skittering thing.

Once, I was brave. Fearless, ( Read more... )

out on the porch in the muggy almost-evening, chainsmoking
and the world shifts, skips a dimension
you are not (here), you are baghdad, you are bombay, you are

the entire wriggling mass of humanity
stunned into some static dynamic

and i can't move, i can't move
lord,
let this music

linger
over
me

summer settles first in your skin, turning it sticky and supple. the humidity clogs every pore, breath fights air on the way down. girl, just staying alive is killing me.this summer in the city begins its hold on you like this. you pace and smoke, sweat. fidget and rummage. it begins in the gaps between opposing bones of the same joint, and you can ( Read more... )

IT HAS BEEN LONG ( Read more... )

it is this new city we inhabit, this city haunted by disaster never manifested. it is in this new city my lover confesses the sexiest part of a woman is her scars: he tells of the scars he has mapped, the faded craters of a childhood attack of chicken pox, scars bearing the imprint of the surgeon's knife, the hand lacerated with broken glass and ( Read more... )