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Leo’s Golden Thread

July 24, 2024

A few years ago I paid Leo D’Angelo a couple hundred dollars for a suit. When I checked my closet this morning, I found a Mass card in one of the pockets of that black pinstripe suit I last wore to a first cousin’s funeral. That discovery alone illustrates the true value of the garment. […]

He-Men … A Short Story

July 18, 2024

“Stop yelling at me, Shelly,” Hairball said to his old lady. “Miss Richards called and said Morgan had beer on his breath at the Pre-K-graduation rehearsal,” Shelly said. “In case you forgot, Morgan is five years old.” “I’m not the one who named a newborn baby boy after her favorite spiced rum,” said Hairball, whose […]

Mourning in America

July 16, 2024

Rising from the pile of frantic Secret Service agents shielding Donald Trump from further attack, the former president raised his fist in defiance. Screaming “Fight, fight, fight!” he electrified the world with his triumphant courage under fire. The already chaotic 2024 presidential campaign exploded in a Butler, Pennsylvania, bloodbath Saturday afternoon with a homegrown assassin’s […]

Beat Poems

July 10, 2024

JUNKIE only slumping occasionally hugging Quaaludes on the Brewery barroom floor short and sweet skin dark as a florida winter suntan pretty shy nobody should have called her Debbie the Junkie but we did telling her she was driving everybody nuts showing off her dead boyfriend’s black onyx ring she wore on a middle finger […]

Beat Poems

July 8, 2024

FIRE devil flames awakened me dancing on my bedroom window in the rented red brick ranch house where we lived parallel to Routes 11 and 15 parallel to railroad tracks polished silver parallel to the wide Susquehanna River where Sonny and I fished for pregnant carp and redneck catfish we hammered with a nail through […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch