

The Laws Of Physics don't...I am wearing myself on my sleeve and the Laws Of PhysicsThe Laws Of Physics don't...
are having a
real
hard
time reconciling this.
I am a trick shot, nine in the corner one in the side
and the Laws Of Physics can't understand
how I try to impress.
I am my last cigarette, sitting there up-ended stale
and the Laws Of Physics just don't get
how to wish.


A Connecticut Yankee in TexasA Connecticut Yankee in TexasA Connecticut Yankee in Texas
Driving into Austin, my dented Volkswagen crammed full of everything I owned, I had no idea where I was going. When people ask me “Why Austin?” I say that I’d just heard a lot about it. Nothing too particular, just heard about it. I knew that they call it the Live Music Capital of the World because it has more live music venues than any other city in the country, but otherwise I’d never even looked at a map of the place. Any town with that title couldn’t be half bad, right?
After being in town for a little while, I realized that that title meant something more, intentional or not. I’ve


look at what a mess you madei find myself, returning, a recurring dream, old familiar ways, still remains:look at what a mess you made
the Capitol Theater, there, it used to stand there,
right there where now there stands a parking sign
it used to stand for something, but now it stands for nothing else.
and the Mayflower Diner, the man upfront, bald and bulging,
on the payphone
"i'll shoot those sons a' bitches..."
the saltshakers sat, still on faded tabletops
and one time she sat right down, hoisting herself into the booth
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"If all the world is a stage, and we are merely players, then always stay in the spotlight and PROJECT!" -Mr. Grant
Dude, your stuff is awesome. I'm gonna DevWatch you, if that's alright.
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"Robert ... I'm trying to change my heathen ways ... would you have my soul condemned over rice?"
- Bucky
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If I'm not writing, I'm just sitting here changing oxygen into carbon dioxide. Like a baby. A little shit and piss factory, maybe one day a man. Be a man today, motherfucker.
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>I lack the beauty you display<
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"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." -Dorothy Parker
"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. " -Rudyard Kipling
i love showing it to people who've never seen it and watching their reactions, too.
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