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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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BRIAN SPAETH
Stories Told in Variegated Inks and Lurid Dyes The Streets All Run Down to the Harbor—Rivulets of Water and Discarded Thoughts and Scraps of Conversations: Ink-Thoughts Running in the Rain/Park/Doldrum/Afternoon Memory-Vapor and Bio-Froth Delights in the City Now Re-Named Absolutea! Phosphor-Trails & Glowing Lights Let the Pen Do All the Work! Stragglers in the Rainy Park Pass By Like Phantoms Seasons of Regret and Oil of Missed Chances in an Elliptical Orbit: The Formulatticca Problemensis Tales of Morphesis Hum of Narcoleptic Insects Sputter & Cough of Ancient Propellor-Driven Aircraft in a Persistant Dream of Childhood The Pen Moves Hesitantly—Waiting For Instructions From It’s Master Who Has Succumbed to the Dissipations of the Mighty Doldrums The Fatigue Stretches For Miles and Colors the Sky and Trees and Faces While It Holds Me Motionless Washington Square as Fear and Loneliness Creep in Around the Periphery The Impracticallia Morphallensis: Book of Useless Knowledge Bodies of Impractical Theorems—Shards of Useless Formulations Status in Perditionary Zones of Vague & Floating Discontent Rancor On a Park Bench: Book Number 30: Vertiginous Thoughts Inscribed and Smeared By the Raindrops in the Mighty City of Absentia Endless Succession of Days Come & Gone Without Import or Reason Low-Key, Water-Park...In the Chess Quadrant—Just a Few Watery Phantoms Clinging to the Parkscape No Electrical Bio-Charge in Evidence—No Spark—No Mad Impulse to Provoke—Just a Balmy and Baleful Torpor in the Watery Park... The Calendaria Incoherenticca: Insults Heaped Upon Insults in this Non-May Month on One of the Peeling Leaves of the Mneumonic Calendar Department of Homicidal Rage 4:31—Washinton Square in an Overcast Slight Drizzle—Sitting Under a Tree—Nowhere To Go... Park Bench Hymnals: March of the Ellipsis The Refrain of the Late Afternoon The Little Book of Dis-Continued Bus Routes And Phantom Stops Orchestrallia Impedimentia Book of Revoked Licenses Rooms Formerly Occupied: Variegated Clues Identities Broken Down To Specific Sets of Clues Orchestra of Moaning Structures and Heaving Chants Strange & Luminous Years According to the Mneumonic Calendar: Tertiary Longings in an Unknown Font Strands of Poisonous and Variegated Light Bulbs The Evil Sweat of Rancorous Thoughts Time Measured Out in Obscure Dollops Words Come Slowly, Fitfully... Stranded on a Park Bench... Brian Spaeth Born in New York City in 1948 East Village resident since 1979 Currently living in Brooklyn Painter, graphic designer, musician & composer, recording artist, writer & poet BFA from The School of Visual Arts 1980 Painter of Formal Garden/Landscapes of Psychedelic Intent Former member of New York’s Garage-Band Legends: The Fleshtones Currently recording with my own band: The Crazy Pages—Atavistic Town-Cryers of Disco-Garage, Folk Music Currently working on short stories, poems, rants, and park-bench scratchings. And Trying to Stay Alive in This Great & Morbid City Sometimes Called: Aphasia, and at other times: Abscondia |
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