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THE DAY GEORGE ROMERO MET BOOM BOOM GECKO
It was a normal day
Like any other
Knee deep in chaos
And calls from his mother
George Romero had just flown back
A big game hunter who’d gone off-track
With a reputation of some renown
He caught a taxi...
TOGETHER AGAIN
I used to be Kit Carson
But I lost my way
So I changed my name
To Danny Kaye
And uprooted myself
To Hollywood
Where the people
Were socially minded and good
I bought a nice house
With a swimming pool
And sent...
YOU LOOKED AT ME
There was a window
In the chaos
When you looked at me
Confirming my existence
And it all seemed right
Across a semi-crowded room
Of nothingness
And recycled opinions
Based upon acceptable misinformation
And yet
I saw something real
And in that brief...
THE LOSS OF THINGS
The man came home to find that a water leak has soaked many of his things. He got that jolting feeling one gets when you think you’ve walked into a nightmare but instantly realize...
THE MEANING OF SUCCESS.
The word success is almost impossible to define, as it means something different to just about everyone. It’s much too large than a single word can contain, because it’s a concept. A floating concept...
THE MAN IN QUESTION
I looked into the man’s face. It was etched with suffering. He had no doubt fallen many times in his battles with Life. It looked to me like the greatest pain had not come...
HOPE, LOVE & LIFE
As long as there’s hope
We can still see the light
It’s shinin’ there
In the darkest of night
As long as there’s hope
As long as there’s hope
We’ll be fine
As long as there’s love
We got nothin’ to fear
In...
THE NEW VIRUS SPEAK.
Now is the hour of our incontinence made glory-holed by sons of Michael Yorke. “Bark” the Hells Angels sing. It is a Far East bitter thing I do now than I have ever dung....
FROM THE NEW UNDERGROUND
The emptiness of night followed me through a maze of situations that could’ve only been conceived by a drunk.
There were rivers of regret that sprang from my life. But they were not things one...
