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My Interests

Music:

Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Loretta Lynn, Talking Heads, Devo (while driving only), The Boss, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Odetta, Nina Simone, Mother Mcree's, Grateful Dead (Not the "Lets Jam!" variety however), Cat Power, David Bowie, John Prine, Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Ramones, Velvet Underground, Mississippi John Hurt, Beatles, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young, Astrud Gilberto, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell, Most any songs about Sailors or grizzley yet romantic deaths ...

Movies:

The Royal Tennenbaums, Twin Peaks, I heart Huckabees, Teen Witch, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Dirty Dancing, Garden State, Labrinth, The Princess Bride, Slackers, If Lucy Fell, Rushmore.

Books:

Richard Brautigan, Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Kenneth Patchen, Tom Robbins, Young Adult Novel, Anais Nin, Hermann Hesse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. Thompson, Old copies of the Mother Earth News

My Blog

Library

Ma said that I should find love at the librarySo I went there to hold the hand of Pynchon To breathe heavy under the covers of literary typesRun my fingers down the spine of dead and therefore managea...
Posted by Chelsy on Tue, 15 May 2007 01:38:00 PST

Rumors from the Hardtimes

I heard it was saidThat in my heartThere is a little piece missingWell, what shape is it then?A little paper doll of you or himMade of flesh and ventriclePumping nothing but air and wishes?And what wo...
Posted by Chelsy on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:55:00 PST

Errand

Today at the grocery store I fell suddenly to my kneesMy hands splayed in front of meNext to the broken jar of apricot jamEmbarrassed, I felt at the groundFor a reasonI wished for a holeOr a puddle of...
Posted by Chelsy on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:53:00 PST

Gardening

1. I love sitting across from youGrazing knees in the grassAnd digging things upStripping back the layersAnd breaking open rocksI'll show you mine, the little memory beatingIn brown handsOf you across...
Posted by Chelsy on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:30:00 PST

Twice

1.Those lilacs wouldnt burnThey would meltA shadowy fire syrupHolding tight to your handsGathering the white fur from dandelionsThe rarestThe coat would look quite famousAgainst my shoulders Don't you...
Posted by Chelsy on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:55:00 PST

Pond

Its morning nowAnd I can see the air It is a gray slick thingThe skin of the oceanSmooth saltMorning and my stomach is turning tricks All night I slept on a pile of booksStill I never dream of themMor...
Posted by Chelsy on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:45:00 PST

Tuning

I tore out the insides on that grand pianoI did it with my hands And the music that it madeWas a melodic surgeryI think I may have fixed something thenAnd when I crawled inside itI figured some prince...
Posted by Chelsy on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:05:00 PST

My First Poem, be moved

What colour is the belly of the beast? And what are its trappings? Silver prints of you and your notebooks Curtains pulled from the skin of mice And men playing records with their fingernails. ...
Posted by Chelsy on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:08:00 PST