what are we doing

together

we have nothing in common

anymore

you dont believe what i believe

i see things that you

dont see

why must i be wrong

why cant you be wrong

for once

i try to show you

but you… Read full post »

"Down at the Crossroads
I tried to flag a ride.
Down at the Crossroads
I tried to flag a ride
didn't nobody seem to know me,
they all just passed me by..." (Robert Johnson)

The propensity of the Average Joe toward Serious mistakes and Misdemeanors while under the influence of Heavy dope and expensive hoot… Read full post »

There is some shit you just Do Not do.

Marry a thick Blond with pink toenails and a drug habit. Snort aspirin. Drop acid at a Pentacostal revival. Laugh at a friend's Cancer diagnosis. Have sex with the widow AT the funeral. Piss on an Alligator. Show up Gin drunk… Read full post »

Gin is Baptism and god and everything right with the world.

Gin is a reason.

Gin makes me happy.

When Sally brought out the green bottle of Tanqueray, I smiled a crooked smile and backed my foot off the gas pedal. We were almost There and too fast and Sally looked… Read full post »

hello god
its me again and im sorry i havent gotten back to you
sooner
but ive been dealing with a bunch of things
that you and i co-concocted to bring me
and i suppose ive been supposing
that you would understand
i have felt so seperate
alone
helpless i have watched my children
walk… Read full post »

my wife keeps telling me my words are too dark

too brooding

why dont you write about love or something pleasant for a change?

she asks with eyes that betray her secret

she has no idea what i am talking about anymore...

so here goes

my attempt at a love poem...… Read full post »

i drove past your house today

the place where you have lived for so long

i could never imagine you

not bieng there and thought

about stopping

but what would i say

confronted with attacks of terror's past

and so i just looked out the window

and realized

that… Read full post »

Good Gravy, son, where have you been?

Did u not hear whats goin on?

traffic is backed up for blocks at every gas station.

people are saying things

scary ass things about the end of days

yes, levelled, she said handing me my smokes

and turning back to the tiny tv… Read full post »

The bar stunk of Death and stale beer and Gospel Blues and the girl with the hibiscus hair said Hello over the top of her Gin and tonic. I smiled at her but told her to stop wasting her time. I do not Sleep with women with tonic on their breath.… Read full post »

As I climb over the wrought iron fence into Key West Cemetery, I am reminded of all the times my mother and I would drink vodka together. She taught me to drink hard liquor at a young age so that she would not have to drink alone. She… Read full post »

I have been contemplating Death a lot more frequently than I used to.

My Mother died not too long ago. She was a bitch, a nag,a cook a cheat, a liar, and one of my best friends. In her Day, she was a whore, a saint, a drunk,… Read full post »

The luckiest man alive is happy…

At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, the Universe acts on many different levels, most of which our puny human minds cannot begin to comprehend. There are forces at work in the Multiverse unbeknownst to us as we stumble through our daily lives… Read full post »

Charlie Sheen does drugs!

Mountains of drugs have defiled the man’s body! Cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and god knows what else has been wearing away at Charlie’s concept of reality for a long time. Drugs and their effects, especially on the “Shut the hell up before I pis… Read full post »

Have you ever seen a 2000 dollar whore?

I am exceptionally pleased to announce that I have been lucky enough to peruse the goods at many of this country’s finest establishments of “soiled doves” and can tell you from the basis of this extensive “research” that they are us… Read full post »

the curve of your back

is a salt lick

I keep returning

oblivious to the death

that awaits

at the tip

of scalding tongue

why taunt me

when the end

result is meat

and trophies

mounted

on suburban walls

  Read full post »

Let us get a little high tonight

On talk on grass on wine on skin

It doesn’t matter to me which

Or more

I just want to be near you

To hear the smoke of your cigarette

Expressed

Impress upon me the scent of skin

And vanilla lavender shampoo

The curve… Read full post »

A strange view when I look

out my window today

black barns and hills reminicent

of the tits of a girl

i once knew

i open a warm gin breakfast

and tell her to drive

she needs to pee

and i do not argue

she is a good girl

and we… Read full post »

Bear claw and alligator foot around my neck

belly full of rum and cornfried oysters

me and this new tattoo

gonna float this thing

gonna float this thing

all the way to New Orleans

where a girl

fresh out of jail

is waiting

with puppy breath

and black polish… Read full post »

You displayed your face

To me

As gravel growled under tire

And I crushed a cigarette.

Who knew that it would be my last?

A last goodbye was bitter

Waffle house coffee

In the shadow of a church

It was an “I never meant to”

And an “it will take time”… Read full post »

I carried her wet from the shower

As the second tower

Collapsed upon itself

We did not have the television on

A lifetime later

I collapsed

Destroyed

When the dust finally settled

There was nothing but destruction

And screams and accusations

of Conspiracy

Some things just happen

For reasons… Read full post »

Songs dreamt in streets embrace

Lying in beds of dirty leavings

And comings

And empty bottles of wine

Empty as heads

Empty as pockets

Empty as these pages

After midnight bottles of wine

Night screaming in sheets embrace

Lying in beds of dirty whores

And Coltrane

And crackheads

And empty… Read full post »

She danced my world into being

shiva, black and gold

hollywood sign and phone booth

as backdrops

and a mercedes

the same colors as she

our eyes met for a millenia

and she danced

i did not desire the burden

of kingship

though the scars she left decreed

blood… Read full post »