Groundhog, do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?
In a windowless bunker at 222 Bowery? (back in the bad old days on Bowery)
Chipmunk, do you burrow like William S. Burroughs? Boro Cooling and Heating, LLC,
you provide comfort to the houses... read more »
May 18, 2013 2:24 am / no comments
Jackie-ing
Jackie
reading Jack
Ker-o-uac
Black Jack Bouvier
Parlez-vous … français?
jack be nimble
jack be spry
jack jump over apple pie (with Iowa vanilla ice cream)
Jack Tar
jack flash
Jack & Jill
(Kris & Keven
All good children... read more »
May 1, 2013 12:59 pm / no comments
Take all blank nights at country blue grass blues
To spend one digging cat in be hat
At Five Spot
You haven’t heard Monk
Till ye seen him
Thump! Bump! Bump! Thump!
Hip jazz angel
Hop essential
Harp the bass
Hype the place
Tip the daisy
Pull... read more »
April 18, 2013 12:49 am / 1 comment
Bickford’s washing up storm
soap suds cacophony submarine night
hey, Huck, pitch in
Bird blew same in Harlem club
all over town the pearl diving jam
scrap pile plunge solos improvs
sudsy scalding water wet mess
best minds, best fingers, scrubbing... read more »
April 3, 2013 10:57 am / 1 comment
Spring I hope for Giggling Ling[1]
a bright and green young strident thing
Ling and I shall ping pong ping
bebop Rhythm-a-ning bing
and dream eternal heavenly spring
ding, ding…ding a ling… swing dissonance ping wing[2]
Trinkle Tinkle,... read more »
March 25, 2013 12:02 pm / 1 comment
“He made an effort to hold down a regular job, but he was a terrible employee and didn’t seem to be suited for anything practical…”
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan
I once had an extraordinary... read more »
March 15, 2013 2:32 am / no comments
by G.K. Stritch – find her on Amazon
A criminal — car thief, wife beater, sociopath — told me about the Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey, when I was seventeen. Probation mandated that the thug enlist in a state-funded... read more »
January 6, 2013 12:45 am / 2 comments
The parts of summer that Annie and I weren’t together could only mean one of two things: that one of us was sleeping or working. When Annie was working, I found ways to keep myself busy. There were plenty of things to do and I usually played... read more »
January 3, 2013 4:40 am / no comments
by G.K. Stritch – find her on Amazon
When I was a little girl, early in the 1960s, my mother and father and sisters and brother and I were driving home from an outing at New York’s Central Park Zoo. My father drove down Seventh Avenue South... read more »
December 19, 2012 3:03 am / 3 comments
a short story
by katy gurin
Christine and Jason went to a new friend’s costume party dressed as grizzly bears. They learned to mimic a bear’s loose, muscular, pigeon-toed gait, and they artfully constructed outfits from shaggy fake... read more »
November 25, 2012 6:41 am / no comments