that's why I
wrote poetry
in the first
place
7/31/10
7/24/10
7/18/10
BENNIE MAUPIN
what's left of
last night's
bonfire Sauza
& a scratched
CD of Bitches
Brew can only
mean one thing
last night's
bonfire Sauza
& a scratched
CD of Bitches
Brew can only
mean one thing
7/15/10
No Particular Place To Go
I would leave LA for instance in a
NY minute and wake up in Chicago
in a chair with a TV bolted to it playing
an old black and white movie with some
idiot telling his mother he is on top of
the world and I mouthed that phrase
on top of the world and it sounded pretty
good until my quarters ran out and I heard
the loudspeaker say they are loading at
Gate 9 so I dropped the empty poorboy
of American port and stood up to face them
NY minute and wake up in Chicago
in a chair with a TV bolted to it playing
an old black and white movie with some
idiot telling his mother he is on top of
the world and I mouthed that phrase
on top of the world and it sounded pretty
good until my quarters ran out and I heard
the loudspeaker say they are loading at
Gate 9 so I dropped the empty poorboy
of American port and stood up to face them
7/13/10
Going Down
it's always something
but it never amounts to
nothing if memory is your
slave then sleep will harbor
faces who count the modulation
of bones a perfect tongue-tied
sentence for in the morning when
she'll fuck you again only if you pull
out and shoot it on her stomach into
neat little puddles of some of our luckiest
but it never amounts to
nothing if memory is your
slave then sleep will harbor
faces who count the modulation
of bones a perfect tongue-tied
sentence for in the morning when
she'll fuck you again only if you pull
out and shoot it on her stomach into
neat little puddles of some of our luckiest
7/5/10
Those Who Die
to Harold Norse
those who die
before they
live are too
poised for tears
but will always
make the cover
of Us Weekly
so it takes a
real fucking poet
to understand
we are all really
dead already
those who die
before they
live are too
poised for tears
but will always
make the cover
of Us Weekly
so it takes a
real fucking poet
to understand
we are all really
dead already
7/3/10
PATRIOTS
my favorite 4th of July
was when me and my
high school buddies went
to go camp up on the
Kern River out of
Bakersfield and right
before you hit those
boulders and the "how
many have died this
year in the rapids" sign
you'd pass that big
arche on the left that said
HAG'S PLACE and
we shot it the finger and
hit that joint for the 18
mile or so treacherous
ride it took to get to
this beautiful creek that
ran into the river where
we set up all our stuff
and dropped some acid to
get fueled for the big
fireworks display at Lake
Isabella that night
where a couple hours and
miles later at dusk and
not quite peaking we
witnessed some local
high school football team
blow themselves up
lighting the shit off this
barge in the middle
of the lake killing half of
them and all the screams
got us out of there back
to camp where we set
up about a hundred
candles all across the
creek on all the rocks in
the water and in that
surreal light talked
about what we'd do if
we ever got drafted
was when me and my
high school buddies went
to go camp up on the
Kern River out of
Bakersfield and right
before you hit those
boulders and the "how
many have died this
year in the rapids" sign
you'd pass that big
arche on the left that said
HAG'S PLACE and
we shot it the finger and
hit that joint for the 18
mile or so treacherous
ride it took to get to
this beautiful creek that
ran into the river where
we set up all our stuff
and dropped some acid to
get fueled for the big
fireworks display at Lake
Isabella that night
where a couple hours and
miles later at dusk and
not quite peaking we
witnessed some local
high school football team
blow themselves up
lighting the shit off this
barge in the middle
of the lake killing half of
them and all the screams
got us out of there back
to camp where we set
up about a hundred
candles all across the
creek on all the rocks in
the water and in that
surreal light talked
about what we'd do if
we ever got drafted
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