Bob in Mexico Bob’s pale long thin body graceful in black wife-beater tee bony hips pressing 501′s wanders up the cliffs of San Miguel in $3.00 thrift store wingtips stopping to muse on a wooden cross at the top where a mexican peasant died Pedro Santiago scratched in coroded wood where now brown kids in [...]
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Not Your Bitch: The Poetry Series with Sissy Buckles
Posted in Not Your Bitch, Sissy Buckles, tagged poetry on February 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Red Shawl from The Rio Grande By Sissy Buckles
Posted in Sissy Buckles, tagged poetry on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found a bright nostalgic woolen shawl smelling of red, blue, and purple dyes tightly woven soft wool in a perfect graceful drape; on the tag – Hand Loomed by the Rio Grande Weavers. When I saw the shawl in a vintage shop I pictured the yellow rose wearing it from that folk ballad ‘The [...]
Wearing Vintage Black by Sissy Buckles
Posted in Sissy Buckles on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Anton Chekhov got it all wrong in The Seagull, and Masha is not in mourning for her life but rather celebrating, and yes, lucky to be breathing and not thrown into mental institutions by our families like Ginsberg’s one-time girl Elise Cowen, “Alone, Weeping, I woke weeping, Alone, In black park of bed” frontal lobotomized [...]
