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Follow Rozewicz

Follow Różewicz". . . at twenty-fourled to slaughter,"he recites, smokes his thick cigarettes,his tenor voice betrays him, his enduranceall these years, he utters so many thingsabout days gone and… More

3:45

She says / something like this: / A torch, a line of torches, men / in plumber uniforms, in laundry jackets More

June Journals 6-25-88

The check I bounced was for $208. My buddy, Alfonso S., did the design and layout for Victor Martinez’s first book, Wrecking Them Back. I feel like telling Vic… More

Tapwater Coffee

They took away our coffee pots; You know the type: Big forty-cup, with chrome, The kind you’d never use at home. They said a weapon Potentially lurked there, Were it heaved or water thrown. More

The Lie

You want to know,Would I kill a child,staring with innocent eyes,the embodiment of defenselessness?I’d murder man, woman, or child,no difference to me.Hate makes no distinction.Not because I’m bitterbeing here… More

Last Call

Last CallDays skipped awaya kid chucking stones across water,happy years gone the way of youth;moved from farm to townand on down the streetto city lights and cheap hotels,dark diveswhere… More

Quiet Racism

Quiet RacismNight smiles, walls carved with namesdead and dying, dates past and present,crowding into one, petrified in ageless shit.Silence support the ceiling. The blackhole we see into to seeis… More