June 29, 2009
You’ve got the gun
And you’re killing everything I love
You don’t respect it
And what you are yeah I reject it
You’re just a fashion show
And you shit on everything I know
And now I’m seeing red
Cause you pulled the trigger
And metal is dead
Stuck Mojo – “Metal Is Dead”
April 17, 2009
You can stretch the truth
And patience wears you so thin
It’s just as easy to see through
Your high self opinion
I know I might be wrong
But I’m sick of pretending
I’ve listened to you too long
And nothing’s ever mended
–”Renovation” by Helmet
February 27, 2009
“The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy – and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You’ll make the sofa in the end.”
— Pam Brown
February 6, 2009
When wandering through the “underground?-huh? what?” I run across Justin Hyde’s work occasionally. We’ve appeared in some of the same places here and there. His poem: “at my first poetry reading” in the January issue of Zygote in my coffee is fucking great. Check it/them out. I’d post a quote, but it’s kinda short and hard (TWSS). Plus, I don’t want to jump any ethics with this pub–they’re pretty f’ing cool.
Anyway–a link.
http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue112atmyfirstpoetry.html
January 8, 2009
Bruce Wayne: You’re vigilantes.
Henri Ducard: No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.
Bruce Wayne: Which is?
Henri Ducard: A legend, Mr. Wayne.
Christian Bale and Liam Neeson in Batman Begins (2005)
January 5, 2009
I am the coming of a new age
Stained we still stand tall
I am the coming of a new age
And I will never fall
I bear the questions of a new time
Seen but never heard
I’ve seen the comings of a new time, get ready…
‘Cause here it comes
–from S.Y.L. by SYL