September 6, 2010
September 5, 2010
Sasha Grey’s Favorite Movie
September 3, 2010
Inspiration
Tried many things:
Read Styron. Walked through the woods,
stopped at the river, watched the fish swim
in circles. Climbed halfway up a mountain,
got tired and climbed back down. Tied
a string around a tree branch, tied a worm
to the string and cast it out into the steely
gray water. The fish weren’t biting,
not even a nibble. Drove back to town
and walked the dusky streets until
they filled up with fog and my feet hurt
and my head ached from a lack of coffee.
Went home, made coffee, smoked two
cigarettes in a row and stood staring
at the blank page.
Read the Spring issue of some
literary journal, thought about writing,
waited for the inspiration to come, but
what, with the cigarettes and the coffee
the only thing to come from within me
was shit.
The plastic factory
Four nights a week
from dusk until dawn
I followed the railroad tracks
the two miles to the plastic factory
where I sat on hard stools
and tied knots
for twelve hours
until my fingers bled
and calloused.
The old lady with the bad perm
came by with a stopwatch
making sure I could tie thirty knots
per minute. I could.
She left me alone after a week or so,
alone to dream about Russia,
Turkish summers,
Ferris wheels,
Iranian women,
until there was nothing left
to dream about.
When the sun came in through the windows
and the smell of coffee lingered
we knew it was time to punch out, go home
and sleep.
Every now and again
one of the men would offer me a drive home,
and I would decline
telling them that I didn’t mind the walk
that the walk was good for the body
and for the soul.
I wish I did take them up
on their offer
because my feet were heavy
and it was always a long walk home
for someone
with nothing
left to dream about.
September 2, 2010
special k
special k kreates
bloated
dimension drifts
and personally inflicted blood bath-like
personal wounds
when you do that first or those after
that first
one too big a shot.
careful, kids and adult old women and men
transvestite and transsexual
psychonaut curious in your chair at home or with good folks risk taker journeying learning
old hippie or "the receptors are there"
might as well
thinkers world and beyond
alike
be careful
this is some powerful shit.
thank allah for cigarettes!!!
SATAN STREETS, TO GUIDE YOU
satin streets
and
allys paved
with fool’s gold
that’s america
the usa
just to inform
you dreaming would be
immigrants – or shit help us you terroristas
if youse is still
got the notion paid the smugglers
to get you illegally or hell, legally,
into this fine
always been always will be
nation - and people –
because nowadays
as the social philosopher types
tenured or not
arm-chair
or actually read a book
and finished it
last year
person you are
not.
just put a little
vapor
in your gas/ass
and keep looking
and things still
in the end and on the way
will definitely
not be alright
nor ever near so
why?
because you lie
as you have been told, no forced,
the truth or what then or now or future past
it passed
and was in turn
passed on to
as the whom you think is the fake and spurious real
you, of you.
boo-hoo hoo.
help! dingos, ah...no...
-- vaporous gas raped my daughter!!!
name?
name’s mary
the virgin mary
joe told the detectives.
repeatedly.
until they believed.
September 1, 2010
For The Cute Poet In Iowa,
My husband is jealous of you,
Because I make him read your
Poems,
He likes some of them.
He squeals like a pig and calls
You farm boy,
Apparently you have sex with lots
Of lonely housewives in Iowa,
And you have lots of adventures
With down on their luck
People that hang out
In bars and greasy diners,
Also in Iowa,
I have to admit,
Some of your poems
Are a little hard to believe,
Like The day you met the Indian
Chief and he turned out
To be your grandfather,
and he told you
your sacred animal
was the Beaver
and a silent
tear fell from your
face and settled
into
your overpriced
shot glass
my generation
they said
we could’nt
do it
and we did’nt.
only thing really worth
living for
is dying
and those twilight zone episodes
you missed.
given the conditions
of the day, year, moment or hour,
are always ripe for
spontaneous suicide!!! yikes!
come
to the
no panic bar.
the panic attack bar & grill
and the rasta roost restaurant.©
learn to live with this
and less
that is the whole of the law.
in the here, now, present, past
and future (continuous?)
which just may not too exactly
nor not
though maybe
might
be you
or whom you shoul or should have been or will be
though again maybe
you
nor not you?
whatever.
August 31, 2010
if there's any irony to be culled at this point in the narrative
thirty-two years old
stocky
like a union pipe fitter
clothes from goodwill
driving
a dented up
kia rio
i pull
three times
the pussy
i did at twenty-two
when i had
the body
of a gymnast
a shiny black
celica gt
and a closet
full of
tight fitting
euro trash.
by Justin Hyde
August 30, 2010
The Couple Fighting In Front Of The Box Office Ultimately Decide To Go Home
August 27, 2010
Internet
The kids are comatose
trying to dial-up utopia,
where everyone is everyone’s friend,
habitually addicting antisocialiogical
behavior of daily updates to claim face space
along the unpaved infomanic superhighway,
of double-jointed hitchhiking hookers
and pedophiles disguised as teenagers,
to be encased within the trappings of the web,
so just
pull the plug.
Oh well,
lol.
August 25, 2010
August 23, 2010
August 21, 2010
within five minutes of entering the supermarket
at the community picnic
August 19, 2010
The Rancid Rooms of Montreal
Sleepy out of the way diners
Run by hard working immigrants
Clatter of dishes, noisy kitchens
Cheap tips under chipped coffee cups.
Find jack there, c. 1953.
Sneering at red rancid rooms off St. Catherine
The gloom time of Peel or a Papineau Tavern
Where he’s drunk on Sang Du Caribou again.
I settle for a Cheval Blanc
Where my morning coffee is still doing its job
& Alcohol fumes from last night’s mess
Are still drilling a deliberate hole in my skull.
Today in a hypnogogic state I saw the face
Of a young Jean Louis Kerouac
On the back of a cloth mottled chair
At The Station Restaurant 8 am.
And this day will never be the same.
Items of Amorous Intent
Wild, wild eyes
Sweet look of
Innocence untried
Youthful charm
Long, artistic fingers
A tilted head
A poutey mouth
Shock pink lips
Soft white neck
Hair in pigtails
With bouncy wisps
And erotic curlicews
Eternal hours
Our nights of lovemaking
The weekends of
Wet ,wet rain
Descending into
Darkness as we
Dissolve these items
Of amorous intent.
August 18, 2010
What a Man Needs
and food
and cases of beer
for the long nights
when he doesn’t have a woman
beer for those nights
when she’s around
but he doesn’t want to talk
he needs money
and moments of anger
he needs rooms
he can go to
and hide from the light
telephones
with caller ID
so he can choose
whether or not to answer
he needs dreams
dreams of beauty
and death
hung with darkness
something
that feels like love
but doesn’t have a name
Nine In the Morning
blowing across the fields
it’s nine in the morning and
I’m thinking about sex
I haven’t been with a woman
in a really long time and
it seems to be a lot windier
around here these days and
whenever I see a woman
I try to picture
what she looks like naked
imagining
how her body feels
rubbing against my own and
I think
that’s one of the reasons
why I’ve been drinking so much
mostly
cold bottles of beer
but sometimes red wine
or whiskey in my coffee
when it starts getting cold
Cruel Summer
if you don’t believe me
just go ask
the women from Bananarama
see what they’re doing now
maybe
if you ask them nicely
they’ll perform
their remake of Venus for you
I used to masturbate
while watching their videos
I think one of them
married Dave Stewart
from the band Eurythmics
I wonder if they’re still together
does anybody here know
whatever happened to Annie Lennox
she frightened me
the first time I saw her
in the video for Sweet Dreams
late-night Friday
on cable TV and
I never had any plans for the weekend
I usually just slept in late
August 16, 2010
Fran’s Building
Summer
The Age of Sail
Shark Week
August 13, 2010
FRESH MORNING COFFEE
everyday
before work
I find myself
staring
into the Earth-blue eyes
of the Starbucks girl
thinking
how beautiful
these eyes
how beautiful
this aroma
of fresh morning coffee
and sticky
breakfast treats
how beautiful
these fleeting moments
of caffeine
and sugar
and dots
of electric light
in blue
green eyes
and
if it weren’t for
the fact
that I hate my job
and despise my boss
and wear my life
like a burn
I would leave
this misted paradise
everyday
in search of
indispensable misery
August 10, 2010
Gateway
There’s a blindness that stings
a sun-encrusted sky. A rooftop,
bloodless, dies. The night
is singing. Plucks a lonely
eye. Shadows are blind.
Whiter white. Down they filter
salt. Whose sound is light. Saccade
on through the million sockets
in the night. Grope on your starry
cavern’s voice…enough!
Where Janus splits, a skyline
sickle rims a blind. Which-
inscribes sight?
Elegy
a sphere's crater
lips, that,
splitting, scream the sun.
Cosmic scars reticulate
the sky’s
heart that,
scattering, captures light.
Bury my blue veins. Unearth
the shroud.
Grounding,
thunders my celestial pulse.