The Queen |
The queen is a beautiful woman. Her face is a soft silhouette of what it once was. Age has found its way to the corner of her eyes. Pulled at them with pain and pleasure, remembering each face that s...
Posted by jonathan on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:21:00 PST |
On being alone, and writing |
I think about life in cowboys, and orangey, sullen, sun-kissed images... often overexposed, over analyzed, and overstated. I feel, very seriously sometimes, that I am all alone, an...
Posted by jonathan on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:51:00 PST |
The Bel Air Motor Hotel |
My Father paid a whole seventeen ninety-nine for a single queen at the Bel Air Motor Hotel. "Just for one," He had falsely assured the shrunken gray coot behind the front desk, so I had to be snu...
Posted by jonathan on Thu, 08 May 2008 11:42:00 PST |
white-trash lovers |
Joshua trees and Manzanita were illuminated by headlights on either side of the road before me. The nighttime air was leaden with the olden scent of desert rain, sagebrush and hungry earth, kissed by ...
Posted by jonathan on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:32:00 PST |
the great american west |
Haunted, settled , the great american west. I can sense the land stretching out beneath me from here to the ocean. It's all going on right now, somewhere and here. The long call of the ...
Posted by jonathan on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:10:00 PST |
LIVE ME |
Maybe it is just the time in my life where I really want to learn to be effective. I want to be a working part of the machine. Existence is such a gift. To be a human on this crazy spinning chunk of o...
Posted by jonathan on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST |
home |
home, it's where i want to be, pick me up and turn me round, i feel numb... . I got plenty a time, you got light in your eyes, when you are standing here beside me under the passing of time, never for...
Posted by jonathan on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:48:00 PST |
why do straights hate gays? |
Why do straights hate gays?
An 72-year-old gay activist isn't hopeful about the future.
By Larry Kramer, LARRY KRAMER is the founder of the protest group ACT UP and the author of "The Tragedy of Today...
Posted by jonathan on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:32:00 PST |
time |
Okay so my preface is that I am not really sure about anything.To me it is all emotion, which in and of itself, like most things, is transient, shifting, and constantly, ummm... moving? Time is a con...
Posted by jonathan on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:05:00 PST |
unremarked sunset |
it's goin' so fast. transparent remedies, don't make you see. they make it flee,away, on distant winding highway, through memory and sound. lasting more frail-ly than before, an unremarked sunset, unf...
Posted by jonathan on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:18:00 PST |
