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t. k. splake |
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untitled on road darkness lonesome hours passing driven mad desires awash black guinness bitters super high buzz stiff foamy beard holy outlaw poet moving beyond well-rounded schoolboy dickhead first class reenacting others lives chasing after silence listening for voices seeking faces emery margaret paula barbara olga dreamy nightmare quiet lost wild boy friends hot 'boss' cars cheap alky ethers good dope bad drug highs "i'll show you" unprotected sex babies replacing childhood dolls now alone nights early morning darkness gray invisible woman racing toward oblivion sad memory first night dad visited her bedroom replaying like grainy 8 mm home movie frames drunkenly jumping through projector sprockets long white musings winter evening darkness frosty breath steaming old man on nightly hike graybeard poet deep in december tides swamper bootsteps crunching arctic long white misty dreams pretty girl lover never found april motorcycle fevers vincent "black lightning" brit cc's jazzing cojones fading distant light grizzled bardic survivor youth wives hospital stays hated millstone career alcoholic suicide dance avoiding seductive nothingness garden golf television vegetable soon back home art gallery attic sanctuary alone in nighttime quiet sipping warm bitter ale soft incense aroma muse light whispers words becoming music early tomorrow waking wild tiger roaring in his skull the way early morning darkness outside winter white thirty-year old goodwill stove bardic madness breaky souper-stewing rice blackeye peas leek mushrooms ham steamy pot-likker aromas radio distant memory now living without country-western ballads npr humoresque respighi delius vivaldi classical music wonders needing silence instead to hear my voice clearly reading yesterday's newspapers folger's red label cuppa-cuppah cooling guessing obit suicides perusing sporting winners checking comic strip characters "get fuzzy" "zits" "non-sequitur" gerry nicosia postcard catching up on california good life north beach poetry scene aging graybeard engaged in desperate race outdistancing death living a little longer lifetime searching for love finding only betrayal joining brown bottle faithful jack daniel's congregation like paul newman playing brick pollitt "cat on a hot tin roof" dependable brain-skull soothing "click" left to bukowski wisdom betting on the poem [Index] |
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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005 |
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