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Background
born in manhattan. now, connecticut after being in texas, virginia, and vermont.
Philosophy
why isn't it Friday today?
Poets
Bukowski, Baudelaire, Jeffrey McDaniel, e.e. cummings, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Ferlinghetti, Brautigan, etc.
Books
Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Albert Camus, William Saroyan, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, Tom Wolfe, Knut Hamsun, etc.
Music
Talking Heads, the Beatles, Keller Williams, Grateful Dead, Medeski Martin & Wood, Modest Mouse, moe., Yonder Mountain String Band, 311, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Gomez, Phish, the New Deal, Johnny Cash, Disco Biscuits, Bob Dylan, etc.
Thank you Justin for your shout. It came to mind when? was the last time I gazed into an open fire, 59 years ago when I lived with the gypsies, outside our tents and caravans. That was realy something.
there are no more reservations
at the chateau,
the snow has fallen,
we've hedged our bets
on the advice
of charlatans––but this is just the way
the dice land,
a quick shake of the wrist
& we leave destiny
to the second hand.
there is no more wealth
in the banks of intelligence,
the vault has been ransacked,
there is no such thing as law,
it's time to lay low
in the bunker,
crack the window
to let the smoke out
& the fresh air in;
this is just the way
everything disintegrates
between
the chaos of a monday morning,
and
the serenity of 4 a.m.
we're all up against the firing squad
but at least
some of
our guts
are made of steel.
