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S.A. GRIFFIN
The Meeting Minutes of the Homeless, Mad & Otherwise Clinically Depressed hopelessly (laughing all the way) we dialogue over dollar coffee almost daily the 65 year old guy sleeping on floors for nearly a year the slightly tilted Korean vet living in the bushes around the corner for almost as long the 3rd a recent Yale grad freezing his ass off in a downtown loft waiting for work the 4th couch surfer sprung from the womb of this stylish neighborhood recovering from a soft stroke some months back hand rolled cigarettes & caffeine fueled small talk wrap themselves around precious days addressing issues far out of anyone's orbit : warrior presidents next to god the global buck the anathema & irrelevance of old world theologies false elections shrinking budgets & crippling debt the centuries old exercise of obscene freedom as practiced upon the free & the infinite justice of unholy war we live death every moment every day imagined or not one foot in front of the other one leg at a time the untouchable republic America, flame thrower of love dreamers awake a pale rider on dark horse approaches full of eyes armed with a shout to raise the dead & will not be denied Weapons of Mass Destruction she was studying Dante's Inferno for her senior lit class we sat side by side in 3rd period art "Why are liars in a lower level of hell than the murderers?" impressed & curious that she would defer to me on something I hadn't read I gave it a beat then surprised myself, "The truth is, that the murderer probably only kills one person. The liar can potentially kill millions, like Hitler." satisfied she had her answer we shifted subjects & continued on with our drawing she was more beautiful than I could have known at the time Vietnam was waiting for me rents were cheap & inflation was just appearing upon the landscape of our Yankee lexicon if we only knew S.A. Griffin is the author of Unborn Again (Phony Lid), A One Legged Man Standing Casually On Hollywood Blvd. Smoking A Cigarette (1989, Shelf Life Press), Heaven Is One Long Naked Dance (1993, Rose of Sharon Press), Twisted Cadillac: A Spoken Word Odyssey (with The Carma Bums, 1996, Sacred Beverage Press) and Co-Editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999, Thunder’s Mouth Press). |
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