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Poetry Friday

AGAINST ELEGIES

James has cancer. Catherine has cancer. Melvin has AIDS. Whom will I call, and get no answer? My old friends, my new friends who are old, or older, sixty, seventy, take pills before or after dinner. Arthritis scourges them. But irremediable night is farther away from them; they seem to hold it at [...]

Video Poetry (Sage Edition)

SAGE FRANCIS – GOT UP THIS MORNING

It’s not that what we’re doing is wrong But let’s try to keep this a secret Between me, you, and the song A menage a trois that sings to me Sinfully When god plays along

     What you want with a woman who won’t do what you [...]

Rider Down: Frank Vandenbroucke

Another rider meets a very sad end way too early … l’enfant terrible though he may have been, there is no doubt that VDB was one of the most natural talents of recent years, and that if he had been able to conquer his demons, his career would have been a long and storied one.

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Quote of the Day

Sausalito Trash Prayer

Sausalito,             Little Willow, Perfect Beach by the last Bay in the World,             None more beautiful,

Today we kneel at thy feet             And curse the men who have misused you.

  — Lew Welch (1926 – 1971[?]), American Beat poet who disappeared in May 1971, presumed to have committed suicide. His body was never [...]

Recommended Reading: Darkness Visible

Darkness Visibleby William Styron.

So, Kim gave me this book to read a couple of weeks ago. She told me that I shouldn’t start reading it unless I promised to finish it.

I never made that promise, because I didn’t know where the book would take me … but I hung on to the book [...]