Monday, February 8th, 2010
dave roskos
better to jot down lines
than sniff them
better to write a bad
aaaaaaaapoem
than no poem at all.
better to jot down lines
than sniff them
better to write a bad
aaaaaaaapoem
than no poem at all.
Life had gotten
too clever for Hondo Molovinski. Cleverness was at the core of all his broken relationships: clever women, yoga instructors and lawyers, women from rich families who slummed with Hondo because he was reasonably good looking, knew the names of obscure punk bands, and could fuck all night with the aid of a [...]
Old Ladies at the Flea Market
They most come here
every week whether they
need to or not, these old
ladies in wheelchairs, with
walkers, canes, surgical
stockings stretched over
swollen ankles, varicose
veins as they creep down
the aisles, stopping traffic
both to a fro, harder to
get around than The Seven
Rocks of Granite, blue hair
permanently waved & frozen
into place by aromatic sprays,
hoese dresses reeking [...]
Midnight Poem
Well, I’m home on my 49th birthday, after a movie, champagne, & loving, up late, still drinking champagne & listening to Monk & Coltrane’s new CD that Vivian gave me. It’s a new CD, but it was recorded in 1957, my birth year, and I’m listening to “Monk’s Mood” and it sounds pretty much [...]
dollar bill wall paper
42 year old collages
cut & paste hippie
meat zen kaleidoscope
texts
suicide shotguns
put to rest
dead beatniks
dead bukowski
dead Dave Church
in a lurch
slumped over the
wheel of his cab
attic apartment
scattered w/ poems
& letters
snow is falling
on Providence
the junkies asleep
in their crips w/o cares
wake-up in a cardboard box
on a heating grate
Dave Roskos, fall 2009
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