Monthly Archives: December 2011

Pandora

I had my first high before I had my first orgasm. On the other side of this, a Pandora’s box. For me everything, even sex, is a substitute for smoking dope. Everything arises from this, like the smoke from my … Continue reading

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Sources

1 Down at the Spot, everyone looked to Silas Chris to slide his thumbnail down the brown wrapper of a blunt at break time. He had big hands and didn’t mind getting them dirty. Didn’t mind getting them white, either—in … Continue reading

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Machine (for Robert Wyatt)

The cripple who played the drums like the piano, shaking out the beat to Bridget Bardot’s dancing body lava lamps burning her bare breasts lighting the ‘60s with a Zippo. Soft, back to basics with a simple song when the … Continue reading

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November (for Yoko Miwa)

November On the ebony off-keys, your hands, your head in a veil of black mist, tonic to your turquoise evening gown. Poised as a turtle dove on an eave, you press an index finger on the ivory, liberating a passel … Continue reading

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