Lift the fear, like a child fallen, from a white kite well forgotten
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Desertion is a breech birth
Desertion is not diarrhea. Desertion is a breech birth. Bring your soldiers. Bring your infants. Now, men, here’s our plan: … More
I mistook César for Jésus
We all get one very stupid fucking lieutenant
At one point, we each of us get one very stupid fucking lieutenant. The unreachable one. The unteachable one. The … More
Jerez: Our stones, they shear, they shear like our religions
Our stones, they shear, they sheer like our religions.
Sevilla #4: Pepe Moral, #2. #61, LIMOSNERO
For this bull: 1. Death, he take his time. 2. Death, he file his nails. 3. Death, he take a … More
Sevilla: I will make you shit your breeches
I come for you hombrelitos. I call for you by name. I bring to you your shame. I steal from … More
Sevilla: The bull he walk off
The bull he walk off, like the elephant for his own words, with his own death. The quick understanding the … More
Córdoba: My mouth is a Moorish gate
My mouth is a Moorish gate of rhinestones and piercings and spikes.
Jerez: ¡ Yeah, gargoyle !
¡ Yeah, gargoyle ! ¡ Arribasé la cabeza ! Lift high your head ! Prepare to receive the bread, Baked … More
Sevilla: I, the bull, became more tired than I ever
I, the bull, became more tired than I ever knew was possible to grow tired and so sleepy and they … More
The Highlander wuz Kurtz, Colonel, Commanding
My Colonel Kurtz’ was Colonel Highlander — a larger-than-life bull of an Infantry officer who was my battalion commander in … More
Give the war its head. Let it choose …
Give the war its head. Let it choose … who are to be its dead.
You floated far, fast, firm, forgotten kite.
You floated far, fast, firm, forgotten like a kite.
Friday Night at the Daddy Daughter Dance
Do do do (what) Daddy did did. Drive drive drive (us, to) Drink drink drink. Down down down (wrong side) … More
Until she tipped her hand
Until she tipped her hand she showed the tipping point of, the full brim of, the fury at the fatherless … More
Dog on Jet-Propulsion-Road, Fort Irwin California, June 1991
“Shit on this, motherfuck that,” Run across this his deranged land No belly-crawling tits No licky-tongue puppy His heart … More
Mary, pray for our son
Mary, i want to give; to turn the wide space open arid empty of my long-since death i, dead, still … More
Aventura con ma abuelita loca y entonces muerta
I have found The very ground, The rocks and sand, Where under my hand Entrusted by my family, I shall … More
Knight-errant come knee-walkin’
ándale
Knee-walking white knight wanted …
spanish need not apply
Knee-walking white knight wanted
apply within
The Polyphonic Spree magic at The Majestic in Dallas
After my first PSpree show, in November at The Birchmere in Virginia, band leader Tim’s niece, Natalie, told me about … More
Early early abstracto for TWS
Rick grew up in New York City during the post-war, Prohibition-era Twenties. His mother was a prostitute unfit to mother … More
In visit to a fatherless god
now let us go to church my friend you and i spread wide astride the sky to find ones no … More
Tampons in the shitters
[ Day 8 of 3-month training exercise w Army boats on Onslow Beach, USMC Camp LeJeune, NC. ] S-3: “S-4!” … More
Friday Night at the Daddy Daughter Dance
Do do do (what) Daddy did did. Drive drive drive (us, to) Drink drink drink. Down down down (wrong side) … More
Shooting and driving with Grandpa in his desert
Saw billboards for hot springs, But I knew if there wasn’t water in Arkansas, There sure wasn’t any here with … More
What happens when you grow up in Texas
Kim chased us out of the kitchen, Out into the yard under the sycamore tree, Roots were old grey-brown bones, … More
His heart is a sun-dried unseeded gourd
Eating Apples in Port-Au-Prince
je suis la fille d’une mere voyagee . . . je suis la fille d’une pere plus tot voyagee . … More
En route Port Au Prince
je suis un soldat . . . je me suis viens d’etats unis sur un avion preparee a se lancer … More
CAPTAIN TAMBURINI, on Desertion:
CAPTAIN TAMBURINI, on Desertion: Desertion is not an impulse purchase. It develops, it doesn’t spring forth. Struggle through the fetid … More