"I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, ( Read more... )

But then slowly, it all begins to fade, and thought is replaced with sensation. The minutes pass between us, in a blur of hands and fingers and mouths and whispers and moans that make no sense, until finally the world stops spinning. The world disappears.

- Dani Shapiro

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

- Charles Bukowski

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" be
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."

"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in ( Read more... )

I imagine the gods saying, We will
make it up to you. We will give you
three wishes, they say. Let me see
the squirrels again, I tell them.
Let me eat some of the great hog
stuffed and roasted on its giant spit
and put out, steaming, into the winter
of my neighborhood when I was usually
too broke to afford even the hundred grams
I ( Read more... )

hey friend listen up their playing our song
on the radio, do you have to go?
i really like it, this rock and roll
makes me want a little sugar in my bowl
it's like the glory days,
it's like a fortune sold