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About Me

"the old know what they want. the young are sad and bewildered."free enneagram test
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My Interests

history, books, vintage erotica, dry humor, tea, judging you based on your astrology chart.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

tom waits, joanna newsom, leonard cohen, cat power, tori amos, nick cave and the bad seeds, any pre-60s blues/bluegrass, wilco, the smashing pumpkins, tool, the mountain goats, ani difranco, grizzly bear, cat power, sufjan stevens, animal collective, m.i.a., the smiths, new order, the cure, bauhaus, the cramps, warren zevon, rasputina devandra banhart, anything lindsay peters listens to.

Movies:

taxi driver, lolita, there will be blood, and my holy trinity of childhood films: the lion king, the last unicorn, and the labyrinth. also, anything animated, bizarre, sexy or sad.

Television:

law & order svu, arrested development, jeopardy.

Books:

works by vladimir nabakov, anais nin, haruki murakami, carlos fuentes, henry miller, jk rowling, gabriel garcia marquez, federico garcia lorca, anne sexton, sylvia plath, charles baudelaire, adrienne rich, dapne gottlieb, peter s.beagle, ray bradbury, joyce carol oates, john steinbeck, robert olen butler, charles simic, sherman alexie, janet finch, etc. poetry by the polish, ancient chinese and modern latino. poets with "the power to discomfit". i could pass out to be surrounded by books i love, poetry i love. if the author or poet is from a spanish speaking country, i probably love it.i horde books as objects, not just things i plan to read. but i will, one day.

Heroes:

marina abramovic and dennis kucinich.

My Blog

i want

yumyumyumyumyumnow, oh reader, you go to a website you like, make a wishlist and post about it. it is very self indulgent and very natural. ...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:52:00 PST

a poem

Keeping Dead FlowersIn so many ways,my life holds stagnant water.Thick and rough fingerstry again and againto fish (plumb in my sidesand orifices) me out.The world holds fistfulsmore enlightened than ...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:47:00 PST

two poems

Cinco de MayoWhen the sky over Oakleyrained down droplets ofbaby food and alcohol,I stayed insideon my insides-stuck to the walllike adhesive tape&ripped off,leaving chunks of myselfon the ceiling.Hen...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Wed, 09 May 2007 06:55:00 PST

poem thing

The amputee plays baseballA bat swings into the dusk. Cutsa trail with its sound: the deep bassoon throbof air being decapitated. Your arm is tuggedlike a harp! Blood on the four knobby knuckles!How A...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:43:00 PST

never get so attached to a poem

significant stranger(greensboro. summer.)how much can there be,to a stranger?a lot, if you read them.in the gas-poisoned artery of north carolina,madeline and i are reading strangers;we do it predator...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:47:00 PST

i hang myself at half-mast

18 ways to wield an ax.(1920 was the year women were finally given the right to vote. it was also theyear of the first miss america pageant.)obsessed with chivalry, or something similar, in the superm...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:23:00 PST

written on the palm of my hands

here is the list of what i want to do: love in a way that is carnivorously, rambunctiously, tenderly, etc. write poetry that is deemed "startling" write a book that becomes a classic in the magic real...
Posted by the midwest monsta on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:37:00 PST

in other news

i no longer have an actual tolerance level. it pops in and out of pseudo-existance depending on the situation.
Posted by the midwest monsta on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:35:00 PST

little boy in spain

i consider it a victory on my part when i am online and no longer know any of the answers to pop-up advertisements endorsed with trivia concerning celebrities.
Posted by the midwest monsta on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:47:00 PST