2008

—bukowski

meanwhile

Driving, dogs barking, how you get used to it, how you make the new street yours. Trees outside the...

“Right now I only want two things - you and time to write....”
—  hunter s. thompson to sandy...

dali: painting and film at the moma

I see a city that's losing its texture, its...

alone with everybody

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break...

sway with me, everything sad — madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and...

I went to buy some shoes - and I came back...

“I want nothing but my own little corner of the world, and I...”
— Edgar Degas

“Life doesn’t imitiate art; life is art (that’s...”
— John Lennon

Green Hills Memorial Park Rancho Palos VerdesLos Angeles...

ken moody and robert sherman, by robert mapplethorpe

robert mapplethorpe and patti smith

robert mapplethorpe

With your mercury mouth in the missionary times,And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like...

“Racine or Donne looked into much more than the heart. One...”
— T. S. Eliot

lillian gish goes to hell

But she has been there before, has a suitein fact, where she can swan and collapseon a series of...

Sometimes in the rough garden of city spaceswhere I believe a mugger will not approach mebecause so...

maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach(to play one day)and maggie discovered a...

You know, I think more and more often

You know, I think more and more often that I should go back. Maybe I’ll meet you. And...

There's No Forgetting

If you should ask me where I’ve been all this time,I have to say ‘Things happen.’I...

bluebird

there’s a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I’m too tough for him,I say, stay...

Listen

this one always breaks my heart.

Listen

an invitation to lunchHOW DO YOU LIKE THATwhen I have only 16 cents and 2packages of...

gamin

all the roofs are wet and underneath smoke that piles softly in streets, tongues are on top of each...

all that

the only things I remember aboutNew York Cityin the summerare the fire escapesand how the people...

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every hour holyI am too small in the...

suitep: Sooo…I hear it’s hot in NYC.

“I was a bit more artsy-fartsy there. I was lying next to my...”
— John Lennon

omg

masstransiscope!

 this picture makes me so happy

“I remember the long division of Saturday’s pomegranate, a...”

After Persephone

At a certain point, it didn’t matter. I commanded him to lead. Farther. So far I was no longer...

“Is it possible, finally, for one human being to achieve...”
— Haruki Murakami

“John Lennon once said to me, ‘Look, it’s very...”
— David Bowie

“So John was sort of [in Liverpool accent] “Oh, here...”
— David Bowie

the beatles from above

“We were in Key West in 1964. We were due to fly into...”
— Paul McCartney, about John...

“Pros’t, Bob. Because we all must...”
— Three Comrades

to music

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:silence of paintings. You language where all languageends. You...

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to...

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my...”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Listen

“Doctors all over the world want my body when it...

malcolm

Dad: See, that’s why the bus has stopped. Look at all those people getting on the bus.Little...

them and us

 they were all out on the front porchtalking:Hemingway, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot,Ezra Pound, Hamsun,...

“I open wide my eyes but see no scenery, I fix my gaze upon...”
— Takashi Murakami

Listen

steps

How funny you are today New Yorklike Ginger Rogers in Swingtimeand St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a...

Listen

“While Beatniks wanted the world to leave them alone, the New...”
— ~ and that’s why i like...

Be Kind

We are always asked to understand the other personsviewpointno matter howout-datedfoolish...

“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better...”
— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Listen

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   I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun;   I effuse my flesh in eddies,...

“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the...”

“The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”

“I’m only 21 years old and I know that there’s...”
— Bob Dylan, 1962

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are...”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend,...”
— Stephen Fry, A Bit of Fry And...

“You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some...”
— Bob Dylan

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s...”
— Allen Ginsberg

“This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”
— Churchill

“Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein.”

“When The Beatles were depressed, thinking, the group is...”

“Leck mich im arsch”
— Mozart

“I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the...”
— T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of...

blasted youth

blasted youth in blackblasted youth looks good in blackhot blackblasted youth doesn’t care in...

“If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean...”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and...

“He glanced at the girl lying asleep on one of the twin beds....”
— J.D. Salinger, A Perfect Day...

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural...”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of...

Seven Poems, VII

who knows if the moon’sa balloon,coming out of a kee