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Again, wow. Hellofa roll of poems. Enjoyed them all, Ron.
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Mike Boyle replied to Ron Androla's discussion 'In Memory' in the group Poetry
Wow, I dig this.
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Sid Hart joined Didi's group
A place to post your poems and talk about your poems and shoot the breeze about your poems and stuff like that. What a concept!
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y've got the muse this morn ron. i seem to recall another poem of yrs abt a poet in a tutu. hiding anything from us? or maybe it was me who wrote it.
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menopausal blood in canning jars...nobody writes like you
6 hours ago
this sums up how i feel at the moment. stayed up too late. just woke up. anti-raptured.
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y've seen lincoln lately? any live theatre in erie.
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whoa. letting the mind swing free.
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mine too. dug this.
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that's high praise from you ron. thanks man. i appreciate it.
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thanks ann
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wha? i just now see daryl hasn't been nominated for pushcart -- i know i saw it a few days ago -- what the hell is the story?!
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Sid Hart I like being in a group of misfits and scoundrels. I mean Jesus didn't come to save the righteous, so I got a chance here.
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i'd have this on my wall in my room, but wld not have it in on our livingroom walls. love the "pig" "ash" --
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a new element? i'd expound on it, but mr. hartenbach's width of work is so wide, his massive fictive confessions & portraits swell with the realities shading such subtle maneuvers of awareness -- think of a poem as if the words were thin wires, as...
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"...playing with words so they can't play with me." that's the same point where this poem hit me between the eyes. went downstairs for a cup of coffee trying to formulate a comment, scrolled down the page and found my husband had said it for me, ...
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playing with words so they can’t play with me. it has nothing to do with taking my sentence seriously. my sentence, "...my life, same thing. either way she’s included. there’s always been a woman in every story. a woman i invariably lose due to in...
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n.r.m.

fat, old, ugly, bones ache, blue balls

it starts with the tits getting flabby and saggy
next thing you know white hairs
start sprouting from chin hair & side hair
lets not forget love handles
& bellies that begin to look pregnant
even your cheeks look like bloated baloons
sometimes you stare in the mirror
and try and suck cheeks in
like a male or female model
but they just puff back out again
what about back neck fat? is there such a thing?
i seem to be getting it
along with an aging hairy saggy ass
any muscle that use to be… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on November 14, 2009 at 8:44pm — 3 Comments

bud backen

first right

first right
after 98th avenue on prescott
is corretta court goes steeply
down to the riverside drive
where an ambling boardwalk
follows the water's edge all
the way to the grotto bar &
grill where you could get a bowl
of minestrone & warm bread
to dip in olive oil & herbs
for less than five bucks
last time we went there i took
the time to read the history of
the river on the back of their
menu & found an astonishing
fact that explained why the
grotto itself wasn't on higher
groun… Continue

Posted by bud backen on November 14, 2009 at 6:08pm

Ron Androla

WHHHAAAATTT??

T 'n A
by ANDROLA, Ron


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* Bookseller: M. Kettner and Son, Booksellers US (US)
* Bookseller Inventory #: 002741
* Format/binding:
* Book condition: Very Good
* Illustrator: Anita Jean Throbb
* Publisher: Road/House Press
* Place: Belvidere, IL
* Date published: 1984
* Keywords: PERIODICALS, POETRY, MODERN LITERATURE, EROTICA

Boo… Continue

Posted by Ron Androla on November 13, 2009 at 4:07pm — 4 Comments

n.r.m.

latest stay

i read a study today about cocaine and crack abuse
it showed a normal 23 to 25 year olds brain
that had never used crack
and his brain looked like it had
two large healthy looking bananas
on either side,
then it showed crack users brain who 23 to 25
and the bananas shrank alot'
then they got into the non stop user
from his 30's to 40's
and those fresh looking bananas had almost faded away
and the topper was if you keep smoking crack
if your are lucky to live into 50'
or 60's those banana things… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on November 13, 2009 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

bud backen

It wasn't

It wasn't

the way they
shaved the baby's
head but why in
christ they found
the need to
both rick & dave
had shaved their heads
so they naturally
felt it right to shave
the baby
when they held
the little tad
to the mirror
he
laughed

Posted by bud backen on November 11, 2009 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

bud backen

had the element

had the element

of surprise eclipsed
we would've been
just going along
for the ride but
as the sun took it's
time rising above
bailey's maple
tree even a blind
man could see
we wasn't gonna
get a tan without
moving the patio
at least thirty feet
across the yard
and a pretty high
fence to mask the
fact we had no
clothes on and the
drugs were all
comin on way too
fast for even yankee
gee who knew his
way around these
climbs claiming to
have taken at least
a hundred trips already

Posted by bud backen on November 11, 2009 at 2:30am

Mike Boyle

Factory life

They've been bringing in cons on
work release for cheap labor.
It started with Frank, two
years ago.
I remember the day Frank
showed up looking all hang-
dog & sullen. He was living in
the half-way house then, just
out of jail.
My boss had contacted him while
he was still incarcerated.
They bring them in for hand
work, bindery things, like
stuffing envelopes for
mailings. Frank had some
printing experience.
They had him doing hand
work, then he was covering
on night shift on the little
press… Continue

Posted by Mike Boyle on November 7, 2009 at 7:11pm — 6 Comments

Ron Androla

OCHO #27

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Posted by Ron Androla on November 6, 2009 at 7:06am — 1 Comment

n.r.m.

seroquil dreams

bruised yellow black & blue
my right arm
missed attempts at never lasting bliss
real genius move when probation see's that
depressed
gobble 300 milligrams of seroquil
& have most bizarre dream ever
with mutant people
with butts for faces
so when they spoke shit came out
& this one dwarf with two heads
wouldn't stop throwing up
what looked like chunky milk
all over himself
& i screamed for somebody to help him
& strange scraggly looking homeless girls
with dyed hair & dead… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on November 6, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Michael Philip Castro

in re Ron's comment yesterday about Cheryl Townsend's bookstore wld have stocked my book

[I FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY THAT THIS POST HAD TOO MANY CHARACTERS TO POST AS A RESPONDING COMMENT, SO I'M POSTING IT HERE]:
"Wld have?" Too bad Cheryl had to close shop. I think it was Braughtigan's "In Watermelon Sugar," where he, as protagonist, had a graveyard shift job as a lone and ensconced curator in and for a "midnight" library of private collections where secret, anonymous authors would drop off their manuscripts from an outside drop shute to an inside collection bin for him, and… Continue

Posted by Michael Philip Castro on November 3, 2009 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Michael Philip Castro

Ron's Hallowe'en Gift

Thanks for the jack, Ron. I tried to get a witch over to you but I gifted myself instead. This Anachron is still configuring out the 21st century. Consider my latest metric montages my gift to the site. Glad they got your hairs up.

Posted by Michael Philip Castro on November 1, 2009 at 12:28am — 1 Comment

n.r.m.

fukin head spins

these weird dyke ladies with mullet haircuts
and chick glasses
showed up at my house to check up on me
from some sort of communuity group ACT team

they caught me off guard.

i cant stand people in general
espically when they show
up
at your house un- invited

they started acting like i should invite them in?
fuk that. and fuk them.

"So whats the deal?
showing up at my house i said, lighting a cig."

"we are just following up on your mental statis is all."

i had swallowewd about 6 libriums and… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on October 31, 2009 at 10:01pm — 1 Comment

Michael Philip Castro

very cool in deed.

Thanks N;rm...as you know, it's not just the need; it's the deed, indeed.

Posted by Michael Philip Castro on October 31, 2009 at 8:36pm

n.r.m.

real people

we are all particles of flesh & cells
useless, easy to kill blobs of skin fat
schizophrenics talk all day long
about thoughts that make no sense

or maybe they all make sense
& i just need to listen harder
one lady spoke 24/7non stop gibberish
about Jesus the devil and how she was a
gospel pop star sent down from heaven
after Dr. reece married her and she was all one
after cow birth

she sucked off a retarded nigger in the bathroom
she is a 70 year old lady,
they were caught in the act
s… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on October 31, 2009 at 8:15pm

n.r.m.

silent

last month and half
had nothing to say
just some sober robot
of depression
i'm in jail
no job
live above mothers garage
cant sleep at night
no longer money to drink
probation people
like evil spies
just waiting to bust me
stare at the tv
with no motivation
20 different job interveiws
lazy cat and dark blinds
and no one likes my felony
even got a nice pretty boy haircut today
with out chemicals
its hard to re learn
the writing
the painting
the music
the spark
i sit in AA meetings
watching brainwa… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on October 22, 2009 at 6:16pm — 3 Comments

Jim Valvis

Goodbye Kiss

Goodbye Kiss


We sat in her new car. We’d just been divorced.
The judge had signed off on the paperwork.
She turned to me and held out her slim hand.
I still loved her, though I was with someone else.
She was with someone else too, and pregnant.
I didn’t know she was pregnant. I didn’t know shit.
The whole marriage I hadn’t known anything.
Why should this last day be any different?
I asked her for a goodbye kiss. She shook her head.
She didn’t think that would be a wise thing to do.
We were sit… Continue

Posted by Jim Valvis on October 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments

Jim Valvis

Grindstone

Grindstone


They say you should keep your nose
to the grindstone, but as a young man,
recently married, I was a grinder-chipper
in a factory in dusty Yale, Michigan,
and I can tell you if you put your nose
to the grindstone you’ll grind flesh,
then cartilage, shredding the nose,
the sinus cavities, reaching the forehead
as blood spurts like red paint shooting
from a sprayer, then the head and mouth
will grind, the stone spinning, its rocks
splintering bone, sanding down the lips,
the chin, eyes… Continue

Posted by Jim Valvis on October 20, 2009 at 12:42pm — 7 Comments

Ron Androla

Batteries Included In The Center Of The Moon

My son-in-law, Jeremy, installs a new water-tank for us. An energy-saver model. He sings & curses & takes congratulatory smoke-breaks after each success in succession of successful accomplishments in the steps he takes. Our hot water has never been hotter & the setting is set to the tank’s most efficient setting. He has all the tools, but runs out of solder & female copper couples, corners. But he gets the job done. It’s a success. We are giving him the old tank since it still wo… Continue

Posted by Ron Androla on October 13, 2009 at 9:36am — 5 Comments

n.r.m.

shooting generic ambiens

me and my friends like to shoot the ten mg pills. it is quite a rush and they are water soluble, turns to like a milky looking substance, and shoot straight into vien, and wamoh! the entire ambien experience in 15 seconds that lingers on till eyes shut down fianlly after tripping with much energy and after drink vodka all night. much things happen.. give it a go if you think im bullshitting. not saying its like heroin shooting, but its on another level, and that 15 seconds is fame, love, reality… Continue

Posted by n.r.m. on October 6, 2009 at 1:17am — 1 Comment

 
 

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