May 2013
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“Tarkovsky is like 2Pac, right? He isn’t really dead.” - my boyfriend
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“Her, she’s Divine. You, you’re a slob.”
– Jean Genet
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“Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. ”
– Anthony Burgess (via theparisreview)
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Last Call (Randall Mann)
A giant bird- of-paradise has climbed the bar: in this paradise
there are no flowers, no flowers at all. When Happy Hour becomes Last Call—
Adam in drag our royalty— we buy her gin for eternity
(an unseen deejay scores the years with pulsing music of the spheres).
Now the queen has gone, gone again in search of love, in search of sin.
It’s closing time. You were not at fault. I drain my glass...
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Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Randall Mann)
in memory, 1929-2004
We choose a cheap hotel
because they’re serving drinks.
We drink. I hear him tell
a tale or two: he thinks
that so-and-so’s a sleaze;
and then there was the time
that Milosz phoned, oh please.
Another gin with lime?
I want to say that once,
I saw him dressed in leather,
leaning on a fence
inside a bar. Rather,
walking to the N,
I gush about his books;
he...
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Advice to Young Poets →
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“Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever. We made love just looking at them.”
– Charles Bukowski (via spacemen-3)
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American Boys by Alex Dimitrov →
A lovely little e-chapbook by the lovely little Dimitorv
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“If you’re gay or an artist and you don’t want to just sit in your room and read...”
– Alex Dimitrov (via dispirited-contrarian)
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“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14...”
– Stephen King (via allegorys)
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WatchBeastie Boys + Librarians
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