Monthly Archives: May 2012

poncho ’59 or ’61

this Poncho Catalina ’59 is a big ol’ Super Duty with star-tipped fins, oh so fine she’s a fifties steel beauty   split grille with quads are lookin’ sweet call it dart or arrowhead no silver streaks on this clean chief it’s wide-track low instead … Continue reading

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just 60 seconds more

just 60 seconds more wrapped up in your sleeping embrace like a Vietnamese salad roll a cocoon of tucked-in yumminess   under covers of semi-darkness warm skin to warmer skin with vegetables inside and out you’re so comforting as you … Continue reading

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excerpt from Dick Lovely

Bamboo Chopsticks Restaurant, Toledo, Ohio – 1954      I tried desperately to swallow a forkful of Hau Long’s so-called, ‘Special’. There was nothing special about it. The Koreans had made better slop out of dog, during the war. I knew most old opium smokers … Continue reading

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excerpt from Dick Lovely

    It’s a ’50 Buick Super Riviera hardtop with fat whitewalls. It has a Fireball straight-eight with a smooth Dynaflow transmission and I baby every square, red inch of it. I love the waterfall of chrome teeth in the grill and the low ride of it. Cars and dames. They’re connected somehow. I like how … Continue reading

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excerpt from Dick Lovely

    It’s damn hot. I can’t look at the stinking corpse of Saul Blatter anymore. Maggots are crawling out of Saul’s dead, open eyes. Maggots, for gods sakes!      I’m squatting four feet away, having  just thrown up. I take my freshly lit … Continue reading

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excerpt from Dick Lovely

    I like Suzy LeBlanc alright. Almost as much as I like burnt toast. Oh, I’ll eat a piece when I’m hungry enough— if that’s all I can get on my plate. She seems to be sitting on my plate now. Of course, I’m acutely aware that the five bourbons are helping my … Continue reading

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Kitten vs. A Scary Thing

“hello there, kitty—“ whispers the yellow killer cue the film score for this linoleum thriller!   an ‘alien’-themed anthem starts to sing and the white-pawed approach is light what is this yellow, scary thing with its stationary might?   catnipped … Continue reading

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badland blues

black-topped buttes and black top this heat haze hovers and hums backed up by the vibrato trio of grasshopper, rattler and fly see the shotgun stop sign sadness? the asphalt surface is melting old thermometer reads, 109 F is it this … Continue reading

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critters and life

critters and life critters and life lookin’ out my  office window this is what I see is rife   pretty partridges peckin’ pebbles by a tree angry ants alterin’ the carcass of a bee haggard, hungry hare hops hastily to … Continue reading

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first time wearing shorts in May

first time wearing shorts in May and flip flops too, I smiley said let the sun shine all the day to dry this oozing scab on head the mole is— the mole is gone! all that’s left’s a big pink hole smell … Continue reading

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