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John

About Me

"Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I'm comfortable with that."

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I was a man who dreamt he was a fish who dreamed he was a man.

Places I've "fallen asleep": Chris Rubino's New Years Eve party, Sir Ivan's Superhero party, a manhole cover next to the East River, Murf's (but not the new one), Black and White, Gayle's floor, a bar in New London I am clearly not ever going to remember the name of, Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern...

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There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats.
—H.L. Mencken

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Nixon or Catherine Malandrino


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -Friedrich Nietzsche

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Listen to Leo, or God's gonna cut you down.

My Blog

Your name’s gonna be in lights, Gandhi

It might not be industrious rats, but in fact a group calling itself Satya-graha.org who place the flowers all around Gandhi. For my part, I am sticking with the rats, they seem better company. They (...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:15:00 GMT

Free Bhutto

Gandhi smiles and does nothing, really, because what can he do? He's a statue in Union Square with no more power or influence than the bronze George Washington in the south or the Madonna and Child ac...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:28:00 GMT

Christmas coming down

The red and white tents are being disassembled as we speak. People were even tossing the refuse of the holiday Bazaar into the rat garden. Soon Gandhi will have the relative peace and quiet of Union S...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:52:00 GMT

Even Gandhi would have slapped him

It seems poor form to walk up to someone who is staring into a rat garden, enjoying smoking with their headphones firmly in their ears, and tap them on the shoulder. Maybe someone staring into a rat g...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:56:00 GMT

continuous

a chewed piece of guma (very large) broken tree branchmillions of cigarette buttsan empty mini häagen dazs containera ripped-up parking ticketa lighter
Posted by on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:17:00 GMT

Listing

spilled bird seedan empty pack of mustarda yam (uncooked)a fifth of georgi vodka (still)a plastic spoon
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:47:00 GMT

Gandhi’s in the kitchen

Cooking up the medicine. Everything tastes like poisons around the garden today. Cigarettes. Coffee. Cigarettes. Squirrels are digging deep. Why do people say there is a chill to the air, but never th...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:33:00 GMT

Sunrise, Brooklyn

The new holes seem to mean the rats are escaping the poisons. you can picture them burrowing out at night, scraping away the dirt from below and emerging, gasping, into the cold night air. Puffs of sm...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:34:00 GMT

Some kind of new bird

There were about three crusts of bread and a gathering of finches pecking out them. The tiny brown birds would occasionally get lost in blowing leaves. Also there was an empty pack of Salem's. But the...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:14:00 GMT

Last night I dreamt

Last night I dreamt of amaryllis. So, of course, I expected to see them on the flaming heart, but it was gone, finally. (Probably because all the rats have been poisoned.) Yesterday it was rearranged,...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:39:00 GMT