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A Prayer for Kurtis Cummings
Say a prayer for old Kurtis Cummings: went out in his rowboat and got lost out at sea. Left his wife and two young children waiting standing at communion with the Reverend Jerry Lee. Picked up his old shotgun and … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged abandonment, desperation, hypocrisy, hysteria, paparazzi, pointlessness, suicide, tabloids
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At the Lakeshore
Thoreau spoke of a quiet desperation: a sad affliction borne by other men, whose lives are filled up, not so much with silence but with a never-ending dulling din, the calling card of progress and its engines, whose pulse and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged desperation, Henry David Thoreau, idleness, Lake Catherine, peace, Walden, work
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You Can Come Home
One winter’s night a number of years ago in Boston, I was huddled in my small studio apartment on Boylston Street near Berklee College of Music. It was a cold December evening, and as I recall I was broke and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged desperation, devotion, loneliness, longing, love, relationships
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Dividing Up the Blame
Wind blowing through a courtyard Shattered windows turn their broken eyes on me Blind, can’t see the street because I’m crying for my soul is in the gutter, trying to find release Is there something on that wall? Looks like … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged blame, desperation, homelessness, responsibility, seasons, winter
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Pleasure City
Canto I: Next stop, the driver said, smiling through cracked wicked lips, Pleasure City – we huddled, prenatal, wondering – even in the suburbs the legends grew, spread by the Party Planners, the malcontent underbelly of the American Experience, bastard … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged deserts, desperation, gambling, impressions, Las Vegas, loss, surrealism, tourism, vacations
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