what do you do for fun outdoor activities mainly I try not to work so hard meeting people, that can be fun trying to you know keep a balance
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music in the war
the Vietnam War has ruined so much good music for me CCR, The Doors – I cannot hear the songs without thinking of bombs dropping skanky Asian prostitutes and yokels abroad smoking cigarettes and talking about Charlie thankfully Zeppelin and Zappa they seemed to stay untainted un-coloured by the jaded brush-strokes held by history’s hand
modern advertising in the head
we live in an age of constant bombardment even when I take a piss there’s a sign on the urinal handle ANIMAL NATION whatever that means before my face hangs a poster THE ORCHID HIGHWAY PRESENTS DIRTY BLUE GROOVE I realize that now, as for decades funk, art, rebellion and the fringe has and alwaysContinue reading “modern advertising in the head”
the great accomplishments of humankind
the pyramids and skyscrapers that reach to the clouds we’ve walked on the moon and cured cancer but we’re most proud of our ability to ignore skin colour and text while we jog
you’re lucky, mate
if this were a different country or possibly another century you’d be killed for that but it’s here and it’s now so I guess we’ll let it slide you don’t realize how lucky you are do you
the last book readers
it is a sad day when the last people around who read books and use libraries are the homeless the last people around who still lost themselves in weather-beaten paperbacks with yellowed pages you can buy a copy for only a penny and sometimes it’s enough to get them through one more day
sitting in the tears of dead and dying genius
feel so out of place in this bookstore I’m actually reading from a book the old woman beside me scans through an issue of Globe and Mail while Atwood and Keats weep behind us before us, three young young ladies flip through magazines and eat french fries and text and giggle I think about aContinue reading “sitting in the tears of dead and dying genius”
friendly neighbourhood bar
what happened to my friendly, neighbourhood bar? Every time I come in to wet my pipe I catch a load of spewing shit drama and here-say grievances of scorned employees I know I’m a good listener and all but can’t a guy just sit and have a sip anymore can’t these bitches just kill eachContinue reading “friendly neighbourhood bar”
the unavoidable allure of brutality
I wish I had a throat to slit or a house to rob or a man to steal of life it all seems so much simpler with some goal to achieve a man to kill, or a quary to gain my heart, it goes to those with real purpose a true end for those peopleContinue reading “the unavoidable allure of brutality”
legend
pound your fists like an animal watch and see, lowly worm who will survive, you or I when the world falls down I long for a time when the wager is set when blood and sand are equal in worth when life and dollar rest even when this whole game gets real and when weContinue reading “legend”
