It’s Friday night. For you, I offer an excerpt from The Energy of Slaves:
“You are almost always with someone else
I’m going to burn down your house
and fuck you in the ass
If you have the presence of mind
to look over your shoulder
you’ll see me swooning
Why don’t you come over to my table
with no pants on
I’m sick of surprising you.”
Old L. Cohen is never old.
Dare, enjoy.
“You can never be sure of the people you know when they don’t want to show you their sadness”
-excerpt from The Breeze / My Baby Cries by Kath Bloom
Joe Swayzee
Sophie
Joe Swayzee
Enjoy. Also, send me mail:
Levi Ward
70 Camden Street
Rockport, Maine 04856
i ask that you’d not let go cause you’re wobbling to say the least / yeah you’re wobbling to say the least, wobbling to say the least / it’s about time for you to leave
Looting dead mom’s bracelets
she smiles and stares but
she’s upset. large man and pulsing
vein on the forehead he is
ashamed, she regrets. pushed
to the floor he wants you
to know he could kill you
but he won’t he’d rather have
you as his slave with your
long hair and wave silhouette.
He speaks to you though your
back turned he need not
see your face he knows it
tightens when he yells.
Half black half white
ram horns above your eyes
dance my child and do try
ignore the boy hanging
before you, his legs crossed
dangling spinning face tight and
dead.
my hair becomes birthday ribbon
curls when she scrapes the
sides of scissors against it
the quiver in your voice brings me patience and I thank you for that. we were all in agreement like a drug deal. It was strange. red nail polish thin lips and that was when I knew I wasn’t made for this.
so many. I am surrounded by my past and yeah, thats fine but I am covered in pen caps and the knowledge of where to cut an empty white ballpoint in half after I pry off the blue end.
Tom Waits – Big in Japan (Mule Variations, 1999)
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last night:
it was dark
i old fashioned
to the church parking
lot.
saw some tail lights
and thought of
yours.
we idled for a while
didn’t near cause
i’d not want to try
too hard.
hoped you’d get out of
that car.
but they pulled away.
was a van
a church van
and i said to myself
“fuck you, jesus.”
mail call
old tins & jim carroll
puffin food & pine cones, for the birthday girl
Mistaking dog barks for distant laughter. No, sirens? No. It was laughter. The first month here I mistook a bug zapper for wood sounds. If you are wood sounds, please come take me now. 12:46 AM 7/o1/09
01. The Walkmen – No Christmas While I’m Talking (Bows & Arrows, 2004)
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02. Ilyas Ahmed – Earn Your Blood (Goner, 2009)
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03. Spacemen 3 – Walking With Jesus (The Perfect Prescription, 1987)
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04. Lady Lamb And The Beekeeper – Until I Am Bones (Samples For Handsome Animals, 2008)
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05. Luke Rathborne – Dog Years (Unknown, 2007)
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06. Television – Marquee Moon (Marquee Moon, 1977)
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07. Discovery – So Insain (Discovery, 2009)
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08. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – I Love Creedence (Etiquette, 2006)
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09. Red House Painters – New Jersey (Red House Painters 2, 1993)
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10. Luke Rathborne – Carousel (Unknown, 2008)
Unfortunately I don’t have a copy of this song. Too bad, really. It’s the perfect end note.
Enjoy.