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Clint Margrave

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. ~Philip Roth

About Me

I'm a writer.

My Interests


I'd like to meet:

Readers.

Music:

The Jam, Paul Weller, Echo and the Bunnymen, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Jane's Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Bauhaus, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure, Radiohead, Public Image Limited, Sex Pistols, The Wonder Stuff, Miles Hunt,The Twilight Singers, Kate Bush, Swerevedriver, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, The Kinks, John Lennon, The Beatles, Nick Drake...

Books:

Influences: Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Houellebecq, Carson McCullers, Cervantes, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Thomas Bernhard, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Raymond Carver, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fernando Pessoa, Henry Miller, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Eugene Ionesco, George Orwell, Herman Hesse, Jean Rhys, Frederick Exley, Milan Kundera,Cesare Pavese, Alberto Moravio, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde, Hanif Kureishi, T.S. Eliot, Martin Amis, Gustave Flaubert, Robinson Jeffers, Knut Hamsun, Jean-Paul Sartre.

Heroes:



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My Blog

October News

Hello everyone, Check out the poems "The Early Death of Men" and "Glitch" featured in the October Issue (10) of The Commonline Project which can be found at http://common-line.com  Also, "If Lo...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

IDENTITY CRISIS

To get me at home it's 562-856-5396. Or if you'd prefer to reach me at work, then it's 562-799-0486. Officially they'll know me better there as 227. But don't try sending any mail because that on...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:12:00 PST

WHAT ONE LEARNS ABOUT LIFE FROM AN ATM

First, choose a language.   Don't ever give anyone your secret code.   Always answer "yes" when asked:   Do you wish to continue?   Make deposits only.   Try hard not to withd...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:08:00 PST

IF LOVERS WERE BOOKS

They wouldn't argue or disagree or impose on our space if we didn't want them to.   Their shelf life would be longer,   and we'd always be sure when we reached the end.   Who knows? &nb...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:05:00 PST

BLIND LEADING THE BLIND

There is a blind man waiting patiently at the corner of this busy intersection.   No stoplight resides here, so he listens attentively for the afternoon traffic to come to a halt.   A young...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:01:00 PST

THE SUN

you puny star! there will come a day when I will not worship you!   when your light will merely grow grass over my grave!   and then, like me you will crumble and be scattered into gi...
Posted by Clint Margrave on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:59:00 PST