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

for alli

up in the air

sending soon

for all the disgruntled folks in my life (in ITC avant garde, 1974-77)

Listening to: Modest Mouse – Interstate 8 (Building Noting Out of Something, 1998)

Enjoy.

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

Thom, June ‘09

Hannah, July ‘09

Images Copyright © 2009 Levi Ward

The Walkmen – Bows & Arrows (Bows & Arrows, 2004)

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In my dream i was a werewolf you’re a stray dog with fleas staring at the sea nothing I can say to you change your heart.  These arms are mine don’t mind who they hold too bright too powerful to know.

01. Cocorosie – Werewolf (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, 2007)

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02. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Bobbie Malone Moves Home (Etiquette, 2006)

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03. Fever Ray – When I Grow Up (Fever Ray, 2009)

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04. Thom Yorke (Mark Mulcahy) – All For The Best (Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, 2009)

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05. Burial – Dog Shelter (Untrue, 2007)

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06. The Field (The Korgis) – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime (Yesterday and Today, 2009)

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07. The Big Pink – Velvet (Van Rivers & the Subliminal Kid Remix) 2009

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08. Radiohead – Last Flowers to the Hospital (In Rainbows Disk 2, 2008)

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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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Images Copyright © 2009 Thomas Cote

Friend, co-worker, country-man Georgia Marie Ponton posted some recent contact sheets the other day. A select few frames are below, but visit her blog Shades of Grey to see them in their original form.

All images copyright 2009 Georgia Ponton

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.”