This is not a pipe.
Poems are nothing more than frantic scribbles of ink on a bar napkin
Little lines left in a creased black notebook.
Nothing more than a drunken mumble,
A sound overheard in a rotting little bar on the west side,
All to be forgotten in the morning.
They are dead.
They don't carry anything at all
And never will.
They rest like cold stones
They are bloodless.
But with the right mind
They can be salvaged and used
Each one,
To build an empire,
A fortress of love
Of pain and suffering
Of influence
Even though the hollow men that write them,
All those desperate, lost masons-
Are all sad fucking liars.
Check out the record "Canyon Joe" by Joe Prudy and "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty. My good friend Chris showed me "Canyon Joe" today while we hung out in West Providence, and I stumbled across "Wildflowers" again when I was running some errands with my roommate Mike. Joe Prudy writes some really great folk/alt country stuff with great lyrical content.
And, if you live in a town with a Wal-Mart... Please check out the book "Why Wal-Mart is Destroying America" or if you've got a minute right now, check out this website http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Wal-Mart/index.html
I found this book a long time ago, and just recently read it again. I was raised in a pretty small town on the south coast of Mass called Wareham. Unfortunately, Wareham has killed off most of its small independently owned businesses because monster corporations like Wal-mart were brought in with the hopes of attracting people from beyond the towns limits. So this book hit close to home... and might with you too.
take a few minutes to check that stuff out!
thanks for reading!
alex
To go along with that, there's also a great documentary on Walmart tited "Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices" that not only spells out how Walmart kills all local business, but also goes inside the company's shady hiring practices, its outsourcing of products for cheep (and exploitative) labor, and loads more. I've seen the film multiple times, written papers on it, and so on and so forth. The entire documentary is uploaded onto Google Video and a quick Google search of it is all you need to find it. I highly suggest it. I need to go out and check out the book you suggested.
ReplyDeleteKeep being awesome,
Derek