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"hank" poems
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for my wife she will see this stiff white body shake it once, then maybe again "Hank!" Hank won't answer. it's not my death that worries me, it's my wife left with this pile of nothing. I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.
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Confession
I'm a simple man A country boy north of the Mason Dixon I don't look for much There's only the little things I that I yearn Like the love of a good woman and a smooth whiskey Maybe a reliable old truck and some folks that would miss me I'm comfortable anywhere I go From the corn fields of Illinois, to the mountains of Tennessee I travel light, some blue jeans and some shirts Perhaps with a few bucks for a little fun I listen to some old country every day Like No Show, Hank and Mr. Conway I'm cut from old school cloth Just like my folks before me Yeah, I'm not fancy I just am who I am A lover and a fighter A son, brother, uncle, and lover
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Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014 at 8:43 PM UTC
Country
I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king My friends all liked the Beatles But, that was not my thing I liked to hear the fiddle To hear the joy burst from the strings I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king I remember me and Grandad Listening to the radio We would listen to the Opry While my friends went to the show Johnny Cash, The Gatlins, Grandpa Jones, and Old Hank Snow I was raised on country music I just wanted you to know I loved the feeling I would get when I heard a country tune Singing about trucks and girls And a golden Tennessee Moon Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Dean The Judds, and Roger Miller Willie, Waylon, Tom T. Hall and Jerry Lee...the Killer I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king My friends all liked the Beatles But, that was not my thing I liked to hear the fiddle To hear the joy burst from the strings I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king Country lost it's western and Rock it lost it's roll But, still old country music Those tunes just made me whole I learned all of the lyrics And I love to hear them sing I grew up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was King I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king My friends all liked the Beatles But, that was not my thing I liked to hear the fiddle To hear the joy burst from the strings I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 1:34 PM UTC
I Grew Up On Country Music
by Arcassin burnham she carried on when she didnt have any strength, and all the rumors was stopping her from from talking to hank, the boy in third grade class that she had eyes for, long hair and think glasses, and she thought she ugly before, confidence grew inside like a new brain cell, forgetting all the gossips can nobody stop the sight of prevail, and nothing would me more proud, and nothing would me more proud you finally got the guy you wanted, nothing would make me more proud, nothing would make me more proud, told you could make it, just like i promised.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 12:00 PM UTC
"Proud"
**** masterminds steer clear of this man He's relentless a pitbull Lumping up Pinkman for no logical reason He's a madman Massacres Mexican kingpins and button men Knocks out Keith Jardine in a barfight initiated as a ptsd relief valve Maddog brothers Axe murdering elite eliminated with a bullet a fender and a little help from Gustavo Fring The only man to walk away unscathed from the exploding head of Danny Trejo debacle Houndog Hank the sherman tank is hot on Heisenbergs trail. Its almost guaranteed One of them will die Heisenbergs Bad But Schrader is badass.
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Jun 21, 2012
Jun 21, 2012 at 6:09 AM UTC
Schrader (Breaking Bad)
written at the Herzl Camp "A drunken man got mad at him / Because he barked in joy / He beat him and he's dying here today / Will you call the doctor please / And tell him if he comes right now / He'll save my precious doggy here he lay / Then he left the fluffy head / But his little dog was dead / Just a shiver and he slowly passed away." This extract comes from a poem called Little Buddy, and is controversial. Allegedly written at the Herzl camp there are claims it might be originated by someone else by the name of Hank Snow.
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Robert Zimmerman Poetry 1957?
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 10:33 AM UTC
This Ain't A ****** Country Song
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent every day Oh in the Tower of Song I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet But I hear him coughing all night long A hundred floors above me In the Tower of Song I was born like this, I had no choice I was born with the gift of a golden voice And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond They tied me to this table right here In the Tower of Song So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all I'm standing by the window where the light is strong Ah they don't let a woman **** you Not in the Tower of Song Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong You see, you hear these funny voices In the Tower of Song I see you standing on the other side I don't know how the river got so wide I loved you baby, way back when And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed But I feel so close to everything that we lost We'll never have to lose it again Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window in the Tower of Song Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent every day Oh in the Tower of Song
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Tower Of Song
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent every day Oh in the Tower of Song I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet But I hear him coughing all night long A hundred floors above me In the Tower of Song I was born like this, I had no choice I was born with the gift of a golden voice And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond They tied me to this table right here In the Tower of Song So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all I'm standing by the window where the light is strong Ah they don't let a woman **** you Not in the Tower of Song Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong You see, you hear these funny voices In the Tower of Song I see you standing on the other side I don't know how the river got so wide I loved you baby, way back when And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed But I feel so close to everything that we lost We'll never have to lose it again Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window in the Tower of Song Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent every day Oh in the Tower of Song
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I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used it along the way. I was reading a week or two after Kandel and I did not look quite as pretty but I brought it off and we ended up at the Webbs, 6, 8, 10 of us, and I drank scotch, wine, beer, tequila and noticed a nice one sitting next to me - one tooth missing when she smiled, lovely, and I put my arm around her and began loading her with ******** when I awakened at 10 a.m. the next morning I was in a strange house in bed with this woman. she was asleep but looked familiar. I got up and here was one kid running around in a crib and another one running around the floor in pajamas. I picked up a letter addressed to one "Betsy R.", so I went back and said, "hey, Betsy, there are kids running around all over this place." "oh Hank, **** it, I'm sick. I want to sleep, not rap." "but look, the ..." "make yourself some coffee." I put the *** on and the little boy ran up in his pajamas. I found a shirt and some pants and some shoes and dressed him. then I cleaned a bottle with hot water, filled it with milk and gave it to the kid in the crib. he went for it. then I went in and squeezed her hand. "I've got to go. are you all right ?" "yes, a little sick. but please don't feel bad." I called a yellow cab and we went back across town. is this what happened to D. Thomas ? I thought. if a man didn't think too much he could be proud of his little conquests - except that the women were better than we - asking nothing as we squirted our poetry our ******** our ***** to them. we were sick poets sick people. across town I knocked on the door of my host and hostess. "what happened ?" they asked. "nothing. got lost." they sat a beer in front of me and I drank it as if I were wordly: a piece-of-ass any-night anywhere type. "somebody got a cigarette ?" I asked. "sure, sure." I lit up and asked, "heard from Creely lately ?" not giving a **** whether they had or not.
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New Mexico
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used it along the way. I was reading a week or two after Kandel and I did not look quite as pretty but I brought it off and we ended up at the Webbs, 6, 8, 10 of us, and I drank scotch, wine, beer, tequila and noticed a nice one sitting next to me - one tooth missing when she smiled, lovely, and I put my arm around her and began loading her with ******** when I awakened at 10 a.m. the next morning I was in a strange house in bed with this woman. she was asleep but looked familiar. I got up and here was one kid running around in a crib and another one running around the floor in pajamas. I picked up a letter addressed to one "Betsy R.", so I went back and said, "hey, Betsy, there are kids running around all over this place." "oh Hank, **** it, I'm sick. I want to sleep, not rap." "but look, the ..." "make yourself some coffee." I put the *** on and the little boy ran up in his pajamas. I found a shirt and some pants and some shoes and dressed him. then I cleaned a bottle with hot water, filled it with milk and gave it to the kid in the crib. he went for it. then I went in and squeezed her hand. "I've got to go. are you all right ?" "yes, a little sick. but please don't feel bad." I called a yellow cab and we went back across town. is this what happened to D. Thomas ? I thought. if a man didn't think too much he could be proud of his little conquests - except that the women were better than we - asking nothing as we squirted our poetry our ******** our ***** to them. we were sick poets sick people. across town I knocked on the door of my host and hostess. "what happened ?" they asked. "nothing. got lost." they sat a beer in front of me and I drank it as if I were wordly: a piece-of-ass any-night anywhere type. "somebody got a cigarette ?" I asked. "sure, sure." I lit up and asked, "heard from Creely lately ?" not giving a **** whether they had or not.
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Maybe it's been written somewhere in the constitution      of the waning moon                                          ― When somebody loves you,                                                you can never be lonely ― But, appearances   to the contrary, the moon is sometimes blue; ***counting stars alone in a sky full of stars*** is just about as lonely as 'once in a blue moon'                               can be ― Like when the night is yours alone                   or feeling alone                in a crowded room hearing Hank Williams moan within your silence        "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"                                          ― When it's hard to say                                                you love someone,..                                                but it's harder to say                                                when you don't ―                 • • • A coyote's pleading howl breaks the silent twilight engulfing trance cast by the dappled moonlight; like there's some kind of lonely madness     swallowing him whole,..                      as     these two hollow eyes                  gaze out through                                      the chilly,                                             sobering                                                  refreshed                                                    Autumn air                                                                  spilling                                                                   in through                                                             the open window,                                                                    ***counting stars ― alone                                                                         in a sky full of stars***                                                                     the crackle of the fireplace                                                                    echoes, startling the silence                                                                          of a feigned warmth                                                                           from the other side                                                                  of an otherwise hollow room and i feel frayed as a hole in an empty pocket with nothing left to lose the impending dark winter nights are lonesome             and  linger longer than before ...    seeing the empty space beside me    I remember how it really really aches to just be ...                                                             ***lonesome as a blue moon ― ***                    ✩                        ✩                                                         ✩                                       ✩                            ✩                                                                ✩                                                                                                            moonless ― rivers ... 2017
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 7:21 PM UTC
Lonesome as a Blue Moon ☽
Maybe it's been written somewhere in the constitution      of the waning moon                                          ― When somebody loves you,                                                you can never be lonely ― But, appearances   to the contrary, the moon is sometimes blue; ***counting stars alone in a sky full of stars*** is just about as lonely as 'once in a blue moon'                               can be ― Like when the night is yours alone                   or feeling alone                in a crowded room hearing Hank Williams moan within your silence        "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"                                          ― When it's hard to say                                                you love someone,..                                                but it's harder to say                                                when you don't ―                 • • • A coyote's pleading howl breaks the silent twilight engulfing trance cast by the dappled moonlight; like there's some kind of lonely madness     swallowing him whole,..                      as     these two hollow eyes                  gaze out through                                      the chilly,                                             sobering                                                  refreshed                                                    Autumn air                                                                  spilling                                                                   in through                                                             the open window,                                                                    ***counting stars ― alone                                                                         in a sky full of stars***                                                                     the crackle of the fireplace                                                                    echoes, startling the silence                                                                          of a feigned warmth                                                                           from the other side                                                                  of an otherwise hollow room and i feel frayed as a hole in an empty pocket with nothing left to lose the impending dark winter nights are lonesome             and  linger longer than before ...    seeing the empty space beside me    I remember how it really really aches to just be ...                                                             ***lonesome as a blue moon ― ***                    ✩                        ✩                                                         ✩                                       ✩                            ✩                                                                ✩                                                                                                            moonless ― rivers ... 2017
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THE ONE ABOUT... "Did you hear the one about..." Death's already laughing "...a fireman, a butcher & a janitor walked into a War..." Death loves to tell this joke Sometimes Death changes the details "...a guy from Omaha, Ohio & Nebraska walked into a War..." "...and the shell fell into the hole they were cowering in..." Death cracks up "...an 18 year old & two guys of twenty walked into a War. . ." "Wot's yer poison?" Death snickers "...some guys called Sam, Hank & Frank walked into a bar in a War and they don't ever ever walk out..."
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Oct 2, 2025
Oct 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM UTC
THE ONE ABOUT. . .
THE HAGGARD woman with a hacking cough and a deathless love whispers of white flowers ... in your poem you pour like a cup of coffee, Gabriel. The slim girl whose voice was lost in the waves of flesh piled on her bones ... and the woman who sold to many men and saw her ******* shrivel ... in two poems you pour these like a cup of coffee, Francois. The woman whose lips are a thread of scarlet, the woman whose feet take hold on hell, the woman who turned to a memorial of salt looking at the lights of a forgotten city ... in your affidavits, ancient Jews, you pour these like cups of coffee. The woman who took men as snakes take rabbits, a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, she whose eyes called men to sea dreams and shark's teeth ... in a poem you pour this like a cup of coffee, Kip. Marching to the footlights in night robes with spots of blood, marching in white sheets muffling the faces, marching with heads in the air they come back and cough and cry and sneer:... in your poems, men, you pour these like cups of coffee.
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Cups of Coffee
Train Sets were always the coolest gift I mean, I never got one but that's what the movies say now I ride trains daily monotonous jumble of commute.work.commute. sleep. a ******    brains get swallowed whole without my morning Joe but there was a time... ...there was a time when I rode that Polar Express to bliss         crazed off hot chocolate    golden ticket in hand then I slipped on ice caps instead of sleeping on beaches dreaming up Mad Hatter candy mogels then Tom Hank's voice was the patter of reindeer and magic was cast by wizards    not scientists A White Beard wise as Gandolf & Dumbledore    specked with canyons of God would laugh jolly into a nation         into a season    into that dusting galaxy of a child's eye that beard    holy and revered would laugh humanity into a rattled world slipping down chimneys it would leave propaganda of hope in the form of trainsets No, I never got one      but I loved that beard         and the silver bells on its sleigh they are voiceless now but I keep them for their shine I miss those days                  ...sometimes... I think about them on my train rides wishing I had a different destination
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Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012 at 3:10 PM UTC
White Beard
matt’s hats tom’s tools & tobacco lou’s liquors fred’s beds dale's doors frank’s planks bill’s drills jane’s drains & panes chuck’s check cashing cheryl’s barrels hank’s tanks tina’s trucks & tractors walt’s asphalt sean’s pawn rick’s rifles mom’s guns terry’s tires charlie’s harleys rhonda’s hondas jim’s rims art’s parts gus’s gas mike’s bikes frank’s feed gwen’s pens ann’s cans nancy’s nursery joes‘s clothes jess’s dresses bert’s skirts steve’s sleeves paul’s shawls michelle’s shells & bells al’s pails & snails sam’s hams & jams patty’s pancakes phil’s chili don’s donuts betty’s spaghetti bob’s burgers alycia’s quiches jean’s beans jerry’s berries anna’s bananas andy’s candies cathy’s taffies tony’s ponies roy’s toys ron’s batons kim’s whims marty’s parties jill’s pills rick’s tricks alice’s palace debbie’s disposal dave’s graves
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 5:53 AM UTC
rodeo drive tucson
outside, the cold air unwraps my skin. i’m listening to a friend tell us a story that feels rehearsed, meant to impress but all i can think about how sweet my drink is and the length of that girl’s dress across the street. then i see him — half-familiar, waving. i don’t remember his name, but he does me, goes on about jobs he’s changed and the old team. i’m the only one left. he asks if life is treating me well. i nod. he asks if i’m happy. i look down, searching for the answer between cigarette ash and concrete. “if you need to think about it,” he says, “you’re not.” his words stay with me for the rest of the night, then the week, then the month.
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Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM UTC
outside hank's.
back on the railroad caught between the current and the cold how is it ol' Cassady died? they say he rode the tracks all the way to Avalon say it was exposure that got him in the end secobarbital and second hand smoke waiting on a wet sunrise that never came counting railroad ties half way to infinity hell of a way to go the hero of two generations hell of a way to go not with a bang --as they say-- no one there to hear the whimper 4am ticket to shambhala Hank gave up the grief weeks before he died crippled and old poor ******* Bukowski could hardly walk down those hallways to hell maybe Hem did it best Ti Jean died from that almighty weight on his shoulders unhappy with a dead liver and a dead spirit. yes, Hem did it best it seems him and Hunter --football season is over-- felt the world slipping out quick as it came so they both put a quick one to the brain all of my old friends are dead now one way tickets to Shangri-La I see them they all walk the tracks but they don't wait up they don't wait up light one for me Hank I'll be there soon enough
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Mar 4, 2013
Mar 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM UTC
Even Hank Died Sober
Lime green freezer pops Swigs of senor Jack Daniels My body gets hot. ------------------------------- Jacky versus wine Will fight to the death tonight Victor gets a home --------------------------------- Baby-making songs (The world tastes like raspberry!) Jazz flute Godzilla ------------------------------- Little black cell phone Glows modern techno at night Rad leaks in my brain. (I am now a spidercorn!) --------------------------------- Idiotic cat Sole bane of my living room You should've been a dog -------------------------------- Woman and man-thing Flame haired goddess of cleavage Mid-coitus phonecalls. --------------------------------- Two shots of whiskey One sibling revelation Long night of country. -------------------------------- Blood-baths, hair stylists ****** eye for the dead guy Joanne: **** the man. ------------------------------- A nice hairy man Smirnoffs, beer pong victory. Did I do a bad? ---------------------------------- I am drunk on you And on you conversation More than on the beer. --------------------------------- Whiskey sours, full. Half-nude swimming with strangers. Attraction repressed. ---------------------------- Oh my pretty beer You so inspire my mind I can't stop giggling. ----------------------------- Hank bones on the wall A sad tale of pretending Oh no! Demon feet.
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Jun 2, 2010
Jun 2, 2010 at 7:13 PM UTC
i am the master of drunken haiku
wednesday  ..                       is faded black jeans/old white tank (too big) (hole from belt buckle centre front) glass of water stuck into the rings left by past week's mugs of beer sitting by the ashtray. and you are better than a nip of rye in the truck cab heading to work. the dust in my lungs (wide open saskatchewan fields) is not as important as watching the clouds stain purple with the sunrise patting two gorgeous farm dogs who run over from behind a silo turned to bronze in the light (there is an angel laying naked in the wheat grain) to nip playfully at my calves while i unchain the derrick, somewhere in my mind's recess it feels like i am loosing atlas from his ******* tho i do not register the thought until later upon waking from a nap. saturday // 1:15:44 pm i am in only briefs now working on a song/i clocked 4                                                                                                       hrs greasing truck 1117 this morning and hauling pallets. daylene from dispatch brought in donuts. i'll spend the afternoon listening to kanye and talking to women online. —there are no girls in estevan. i have (kind of) looked.                                                        sometimes i believe this to be pathetic but then i think further ahead and it's not so bad. you do really meet some nice girls. phone is replete with their numbers & they keep me company on long rides to and from leases, asking about work. hoping that i am well. (once back home by christmas account will be deleted and i can take them out at my leisure. you'll understand i hope that i am not a desperate man. but one has to work with that which he has. would you rather i go lonely? make my home in the mud to croon hank williams to crows?) (temporality.) 15/10/2012 there are now three beer cans on the carpet & one on the washing machine by the bathroom door which i will drink in the shower. it was sort of a long day.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM UTC
rough / basement clothes (three days)
wednesday  ..                       is faded black jeans/old white tank (too big) (hole from belt buckle centre front) glass of water stuck into the rings left by past week's mugs of beer sitting by the ashtray. and you are better than a nip of rye in the truck cab heading to work. the dust in my lungs (wide open saskatchewan fields) is not as important as watching the clouds stain purple with the sunrise patting two gorgeous farm dogs who run over from behind a silo turned to bronze in the light (there is an angel laying naked in the wheat grain) to nip playfully at my calves while i unchain the derrick, somewhere in my mind's recess it feels like i am loosing atlas from his ******* tho i do not register the thought until later upon waking from a nap. saturday // 1:15:44 pm i am in only briefs now working on a song/i clocked 4                                                                                                       hrs greasing truck 1117 this morning and hauling pallets. daylene from dispatch brought in donuts. i'll spend the afternoon listening to kanye and talking to women online. —there are no girls in estevan. i have (kind of) looked.                                                        sometimes i believe this to be pathetic but then i think further ahead and it's not so bad. you do really meet some nice girls. phone is replete with their numbers & they keep me company on long rides to and from leases, asking about work. hoping that i am well. (once back home by christmas account will be deleted and i can take them out at my leisure. you'll understand i hope that i am not a desperate man. but one has to work with that which he has. would you rather i go lonely? make my home in the mud to croon hank williams to crows?) (temporality.) 15/10/2012 there are now three beer cans on the carpet & one on the washing machine by the bathroom door which i will drink in the shower. it was sort of a long day.
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Hollow points break to pieces memories are liquid gold time is the jet of life school the prison unbound from these links the reaper looms over the fallen like polar bears--those released are the new homeless Chernobyl shall be our name Alcatraz has abandoned thy past to repeat A heart as strong as Hank Williams in the end we are the England Patriots of 2007 but before that sorry night 2012 will be Disney World
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May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012 at 5:00 AM UTC
The Darkness is Coming
Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I dreamed I was dying and goin’ to hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. Last night I was shot and arrived at hiphop heaven. And you know who met me at the big bling gates? The original kings of da hood themselves, Run DMC. They said to me, they said, “Bro, the Big Dude of the hood up here, has told us to show you around the crib. So come with us. Now standing on da corner is some of your favourite homies. **** I was glad to see them, The Notorious B.I.G. and the maestro of rap Tupac Shakur. I dreamed I was dead in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. They introduced me to Snoop Dog, and they showed me the Ghetto of Fame with all the gold chains and number one hits up upon da wall. Then they said, “Bro, walk this way, there are a few more hiphop stars, that I know you’re dying to meet, they’re hangin’ for you. “There they were chillin’ by the curbside and staring down at me - Eminem and AKA MCA. Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I met all my heroes right from the get go **** what a privilege to have finally met Then I asked them, who else do you think will join y’all, uh, say twenty five years from now? They handed me a book of sheet music covered with graffiti. They named it the Hood 4 Life Book. In it, were many names and some were already highlighted in black texta. I began to scan the pages and saw names such as, Dolla, Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, Nipsey Hussle, Easy-E, Lisa Lopes, Nate Dogg, Lil Peep, Jam Master Jay, J Dilla, Proof, Soulja Slim, Big Hawk, Prodigy, Camoflauge, Natina Reed, Charizma, Bloodshed, Big Bank Hank and  Dav E Crockett. *** Dav E Crockett? Oh, well, that's when I woke up, and I'm sorry I did, because I always dream I’d end up in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it would be, y’all be knowin’ what I mean?
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Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 at 10:46 AM UTC
Dav E Crockett
Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I dreamed I was dying and goin’ to hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. Last night I was shot and arrived at hiphop heaven. And you know who met me at the big bling gates? The original kings of da hood themselves, Run DMC. They said to me, they said, “Bro, the Big Dude of the hood up here, has told us to show you around the crib. So come with us. Now standing on da corner is some of your favourite homies. **** I was glad to see them, The Notorious B.I.G. and the maestro of rap Tupac Shakur. I dreamed I was dead in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. They introduced me to Snoop Dog, and they showed me the Ghetto of Fame with all the gold chains and number one hits up upon da wall. Then they said, “Bro, walk this way, there are a few more hiphop stars, that I know you’re dying to meet, they’re hangin’ for you. “There they were chillin’ by the curbside and staring down at me - Eminem and AKA MCA. Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I met all my heroes right from the get go **** what a privilege to have finally met Then I asked them, who else do you think will join y’all, uh, say twenty five years from now? They handed me a book of sheet music covered with graffiti. They named it the Hood 4 Life Book. In it, were many names and some were already highlighted in black texta. I began to scan the pages and saw names such as, Dolla, Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, Nipsey Hussle, Easy-E, Lisa Lopes, Nate Dogg, Lil Peep, Jam Master Jay, J Dilla, Proof, Soulja Slim, Big Hawk, Prodigy, Camoflauge, Natina Reed, Charizma, Bloodshed, Big Bank Hank and  Dav E Crockett. *** Dav E Crockett? Oh, well, that's when I woke up, and I'm sorry I did, because I always dream I’d end up in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it would be, y’all be knowin’ what I mean?
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THE SEA at its worst drives a white foam up, The same sea sometimes so easy and rocking with green mirrors. So you were there when the white foam was up And the salt spatter and the rack and the dulse- You were done ********* these, and high, higher and higher Your feet went and it was your voice went, "Hai, hai, hai," Up where the rocks let nothing live and the grass was gone, Not even a hank nor a wisp of sea moss hoping. Here your feet and your same singing, "Hai, hai, hai." Was there anything else to answer than, "Hai, hai, hai,"? Did I go up those same crags yesterday and the day before Scruffing my shoe leather and scraping the tough gnomic stuff Of stones woven on a cold criss-cross so long ago? Have I not sat there ... watching the white foam up, The hoarse white lines coming to curve, foam, slip back? Didn't I learn then how the call comes, "Hai, hai, hai"?
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Chasers
Always some drunk ******* standing in the back of the bar who feels his life's mission is to continuously shout boisterous requests for "Freebird" during the encore. Second hand smoke thick as English fog and deadlier than a toxic chemical spill in the middle of the driveway. The load out and equipment set up in which the drummer inevitably excuses himself from working with any other piece of equipment besides his drums, since  "there a big enough hassle on their own". The inevitable bartering for free beer which during later years became a case of being lucky if you got your drinks at 50% off but even then sometimes you wouldn't be given a tab. The lone dancer at the very beginning of the first set, never the most attractive lady I in the house and all too often she made it through a whole song without a dance partner.  It always seemed like some kind if code, especially when an inebriated gentleman would hook up with her. But I never figured out what the jig was about. Always a drummer in the house, the real deal or an enthusiastic amateur. They will find a way to play the drummer's kit. Don't even try to stop them, for any reason. They will play. Likewise the older gentleman with the button up cowboyshirt, the one with the stale pack of Marlboros in the front pocket, he will try to impress you by claiming to know every song Hank Williams ever sang. The wise gambler bets that indeed he does have an encyclopedic knowledge of Hank's repertoire. Unfortunately he never claimed to have the pipes to pull one or two or three off himself...but that won't stop him from begging and soon enough he'll be under the spotlight singing "Your Cheatin' Heart" with every word and melody spot on but voice that could turn Hank's mother away. He is the anti-PR agent for Hank Williams. After people hear him butcher the songs they don't want to know what Hank sounded like singing them. The bouncer is your friend. If such is not the case before the show begins make every effort available short of paying him your whole salary to secure his loyalty. Trust me here. To be continued Yep, much more to com
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Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 12:08 AM UTC
Things I hated about playing in a classic rock/country music cover band over the course of 30 years
Always some drunk ******* standing in the back of the bar who feels his life's mission is to continuously shout boisterous requests for "Freebird" during the encore. Second hand smoke thick as English fog and deadlier than a toxic chemical spill in the middle of the driveway. The load out and equipment set up in which the drummer inevitably excuses himself from working with any other piece of equipment besides his drums, since  "there a big enough hassle on their own". The inevitable bartering for free beer which during later years became a case of being lucky if you got your drinks at 50% off but even then sometimes you wouldn't be given a tab. The lone dancer at the very beginning of the first set, never the most attractive lady I in the house and all too often she made it through a whole song without a dance partner.  It always seemed like some kind if code, especially when an inebriated gentleman would hook up with her. But I never figured out what the jig was about. Always a drummer in the house, the real deal or an enthusiastic amateur. They will find a way to play the drummer's kit. Don't even try to stop them, for any reason. They will play. Likewise the older gentleman with the button up cowboyshirt, the one with the stale pack of Marlboros in the front pocket, he will try to impress you by claiming to know every song Hank Williams ever sang. The wise gambler bets that indeed he does have an encyclopedic knowledge of Hank's repertoire. Unfortunately he never claimed to have the pipes to pull one or two or three off himself...but that won't stop him from begging and soon enough he'll be under the spotlight singing "Your Cheatin' Heart" with every word and melody spot on but voice that could turn Hank's mother away. He is the anti-PR agent for Hank Williams. After people hear him butcher the songs they don't want to know what Hank sounded like singing them. The bouncer is your friend. If such is not the case before the show begins make every effort available short of paying him your whole salary to secure his loyalty. Trust me here. To be continued Yep, much more to com
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saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 11:21 PM UTC
Apache Yawn Echo Imitation
saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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