DEATH OF CONEY ISLAND |
PROLOGUE:Death. It begins with the loss of a favorite blue scarf or a childhood domicile or a seventy-something mentor who, no matter how hungry he was for money, always fed a smooth dollar to y...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:47:00 PST |
PAINTED SAINTS |
I hate rainy days, but I adore passing showers when undark skies indulge in brief crying jags only to, moments later, smile with sunshine. Nothing compares to the sight of sun glistening ...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:50:00 PST |
THE GREAT ECCENTRIC OFFBEAT FLEA CIRCUS CURIOSITIES |
Performances daily. Must show I.D. (i.e. poetry, music, paintings, stories, art, baked desserts). Favoritism shown to giants, those who can French kiss themselves, and anyone dressed in a ...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:11:00 PST |
CROWN OF TWIGS |
I see him dancing before the café on St. Catherine East, his necklace of masks jingling against his white pirate shirt like skeleton bones in October, a black beauty mark tattooed above eit...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:05:00 PST |
BEGGAR |
We don't see certain people. We close our eyes to them on purpose, or worse: We look past them.
We look past the drunk man, probably not that old, his face haggard upon scrutiny, begging ...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:01:00 PST |
PRESSURE TO BE PERFECT |
I am songwriter. That is all I am.
I have starved for my art. That does not make me a better writer; It is just an occupational hazard.
I have watched my friends...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:17:00 PST |
LIFE ON DEATH ROW |
Summer sits silently in the electric chair, awaiting its inevitable execution.
Today, I am young, but not as young as I once was. I am summer's twin brother. I am as a...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:08:00 PST |
PIRATE |
You were early; The sun was supposed to be in Leo, where it stood when I first said "hello" to this world. Instead, it was in Cancer when you arrived like the first guest to show up to the party...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST |
UGLY BOYS U NITE! |
"Ugly Boy" was born after a group of gay men told me I was not their type and that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
I had not asked for their opinion of me and they had not seen my quiet...
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST |
UGLY BOY |
Ugly boy, how'd you get so jaded
Pretty boy, things get complicated
When the world kills the beauty that's inside you
- Marc McBarron Kessler, Song Posted 7/6/07
Posted by Marc McBarron Kessler on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST |
