Category: Narrative
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The Dream Is Over: The Life And Times Of Chris Cornell
I bought a CD copy of Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger in Chilliwack in 2019. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the Pacific Northwest, Grunge music, Soundgarden, or Chris Cornell, but I bought the CD because I was interested by the complex album artwork, and the fact that it was a “25th Anniversary Remaster”- I thought…
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2024, A Decade To Live In
Listening to old Post Malone albums, 7:55 AM. The weather is mild for this time of year, -6 in mid February. My car is in the shop, a vehicle from a different year. 2017. Other side rockstar is a sugar wraith, and he wants to stay after he leaves, the pop singer tells me. The…
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Pragmatism
The lady of the night and the wiseguy live in despair of Providence. They provide for themselves. Does a boy deserve to live as a gun? Does a girl deserve to live as a body? What they deserve does not concern them, because they do not receive what they deserve. They take the work that…
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Vessels
Your Love is like a building, four walls and a door. A set of windows look out into the horizon. You see a flock of birds and a yellow sunset. Someone calls you on the telephone, and they start screaming about a storm coming, “blowing in from the East”. The birds are flying West, and…
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Cravings
“Oh hell”, whined Sophia. “I can’t listen to this anymore. Why do you have to treat me like this?” “Who needs you anyway?” snarled Constantine. “You and your whining make me sick.” They talk like this a long time, walking down the street. A homeless man approaches them and gives them some advice. “A man’s…
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Old Blue Eyes
Alone, Frank Sinatra slowly sheds a tear. He wishes he could quit smoking, while he sits by the river. Ol’ Blue Eyes doesn’t want to sing anymore. Frank never liked Led Zeppelin, but they dedicated an album to something he desired. Led Zeppelin III is dedicated to ‘the idea of forgotten completeness’- recorded in an…
High Strung Poetry and Analysis 