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Michael William Conrad

...the smile at the foot of the ladder

About Me

unaccomplished dreams, ashy lungs, a wounded liver.

My Interests

decomposition. botany. theology. mythology. history. cryptozoology. mysticism. meditation. intoxication. lucid dreaming. all things trivial and mysterious.

I'd like to meet:

meh, i guess people who would like to meet me...

Music:

welcome the plague year, polar bears, santiago, smoke and smoke, now denial, swans, neurosis, mogwai, mono, goatsnake, jesu, godspeed, angels of light, silver mt zion, miles davis, strapping young lad, pg 99, city of caterpillar, malady, explosions in the sky, the melvins, godflesh, electric wizard, reds, the fiction, ampere, red sparrowes, otesanek, old man gloom, isis, growing, sunno))), rebreather, circle takes the square, cult of luna, mare, nirvana, jay z, kanye west, e40. dead prez, blackstarr, wu tang, sage francis, cursive, the new trust, no more stereo, cave in, pygmy lush, verse en coma, bonnie prince billy, johnny cash, hank williams, russian circles,sparklehorse, william shatner etc...

Movies:

netflix... they come and go quickly.

Television:

TWIN PEAKS, lost, house m.d., star trek

Books:

used ones that smell like basements.

Heroes:

fat guys who take their shirts off in public.

My Blog

love poems 101

i was asked to write somethingfor a small literary magazine in Connecticut that had published some of my work under a year agothey want something romantic.they want something to show depth, something ...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:07:00 PST

Jet Blue

even as she chased me out of the airport terminal with a hurricane of kisses and desperate I love you's i knew our love was dying.as i know this when seeing newborn babies, fat with life. unaware of t...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:46:00 PST

Things Will Change

...and I love you so much it hurts....and I know I always seem to say that when I should be saying sorry,or just shutting the fuck up, but that's my mouth, and that's why I amthe miserable 80 year old...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:22:00 PST

To The Man With The Shakes

outside the barholding the little brown bagI watch you sit and shakelike a cold wet dogI thought about slapping youfor offending my eyes with your shake-shake-shake but as I raised my nickel cigarto m...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:15:00 PST

Tiny Screaming

small voicesscreamingMY FUCKING EAR OFF I fear my writing is sufferingbecause the voicesscream TIME IS RUNNING OUT ASSHOLE so I throw it out thereblunt and as honest as a liar can bethis and that, thi...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:14:00 PST

she's never coming home

quit waiting for her.she is never coming homeshe hasn't passed on in an accidentor of simple disease,she isn't even running lateshe just isn't coming homestop staring out the window,listening intently...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:36:00 PST

my work schedule lately...

looks a bit like this... actually this is it exactly... saturday-7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm sunday-DAY OFF!!! monday-7am-3pm, 5pm-9pm, 11pm-7am tuesday-7am-11pm wednesday-7am-3pm, NIGHT OFF! TATTOO! th...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

3,500 reasons to quit breathing.

I am back from California, with kind of a new perspective on a lot of things. I would try to recount everything that happened but I would end up leaving something important out. Of course I missed a l...
Posted by Michael William Conrad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST