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Matt Jones

las alas de angeles

About Me


"Beat the skins and let the/loose lips kiss you clean/quietly pour out like light/like light, like answering the sun."

God Bless Hip Hop

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

anything that believes in magic.

Heroes:

b. mills, r. jones, r. mills, w. nickerson, m. marbury
j. depp, n. giovanni, j. hendrix
d. williams, g. lipsitz, t. rose, a. martinez, p. ortiz
s. williams, m. king, m. x, f. hammer, four little girls
s. david, h. farley, c. erwing(s), w. erwing, j. salinas
ana and eshu cast
j. basquiat

My Blog

new poetry 5.13.2008

after midnightlike the red lights of somethingslightly dimmed likefingertips fumbling in the coming darknesslooking for the softest precisionpenetration with permission.held together by skin pulled ti...
Posted by Matt Jones on Tue, 13 May 2008 03:37:00 PST

new blog 5.7.08

Today has been one of those days...ipodshuffle:Thom Yorke - Black SwanLunchmoney - Toop Toop Beep BeepBlackalicious - First in FlightBeatles - Black BirdAndre 3000 - When I look Into Your EyesTricky -...
Posted by Matt Jones on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:00 PST

new poetry 5.5.08

i write scriptures to stop dangling from other peoples wordssentences sentencing subliminally, inconspicuously filling nooses with the neck of new expressionhanging our ideas like pictures in museums ...
Posted by Matt Jones on Tue, 06 May 2008 05:52:00 PST

thoughts on a monday

Thoughts...some of you remember me when i had twisted up hair in high school and transitioned into growing locks. The reasons for growing them, as i would hope similarly for most, were extremely pers...
Posted by Matt Jones on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:51:00 PST

city poem (jena mix)

midwives birth battle criespush and breathe with meReanimated creation I'm re-livingdevastation of nations i revealing passing lyrical libations in circular formationsrevelations race-in cyclical medi...
Posted by Matt Jones on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:33:00 PST

ode creation poem

I quilled my hands, feather-tipped writing words like flight sifting through clouds i look down at the world as a blank canvas i only see serenity, the humility of seven angeles with severed halos for...
Posted by Matt Jones on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:46:00 PST

jena poem

Its like im pregnant with the whole city,and i can feel the streetlights kickand the nightlife pushLike damn thats kush!See the sun shine against a swollen golden bellyGovernment rips the umbilical ch...
Posted by Matt Jones on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:37:00 PST

minneapolis/fringe festival/21st birthday (part 1)

minneapolisa great place to visit, wouldn't wanna live here. the midwest is a very interesting place that makes me feel very fortunate to be from Los Angeles, but it really is beautiful here...like tr...
Posted by Matt Jones on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST