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To get the stuff. He had a benz, then. God be with you, Rocky.

And now there is only the music. There is no bleached, living corpse to ridicule, no mutilated goblin to speculate on; no daemonic, yet tortured soul to gossip over for years and years on end. There is nothing left but the beauty, the arresting, transcendent beauty that came out of him at his very best; a beauty as clear, yet unexplainable as ( Read more... )

And threw up the fish I ate last night.

God be with you, Michael  Jackson.

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Cause it feels like it. I have never been this emotionally exhausted after 3 days ( Read more... )

I don't want to hear breakup songs/ poems right now. Oh, I'll always be up for a good one.  But the best ones stay in the lane of their own personal relationships, and don't tell you that your love life is destined to fail because theirs did.

I'll tell you a story. After A.L dumped me 8 years ago( with good reason: see the post romantic love poem ( Read more... )

Talked to A.L  today, and basically we agreed that I'm the male version of her mistress. And I'm strangely okay with that.

She's going to her hippie friend's in California in the fall, and wants a person to come down to Tacoma every other week in the summer, a person who doesnt want much, a person  who isnt an asshole. And im not an asshole anymore ( Read more... )

ATTN: BLACK MEN IN BELLINGHAM. If you do not want to be stopped by the police around Woburn and Fraser, here are the things you shouldn't have on you,
Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
Plays 1937-1955: Tennessee Williams
Collected poems of William Butler Yeats
Groceries.

These are important things not to have, because apparently, literate, hungry ( Read more... )

For name checking an article I did on Ray Charles in your new book ( Read more... )

struggled like HELL to get a venue and no takers. I am going to try every single darn connection I have.  But tomorrow. I need some me time.