byHowieGood  dumaiweb

Fail better

1 Is this your career? Seriously? Get a real job! Writing postcards doesn't count! 2 Turn up the television. Anyone can do it. 3 I don’t...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , calendar , film , free verse , translation

Revolutions #12 & 35

Every revolution is a throw of the dice. Only violence helps where violence rules. Who are we anyway? Eyes that do not want to close at all ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , free verse , letter , quotation

Letters to God

A great deal of my mail comes from fans – fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHowieGood , death , fire , free verse

Some Sort of Shining

I can still see the bright-crimson glow. This wasn’t any ordinary fire, It was some sort of shining. I’d never seen anything like it in the ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

advert , byHowieGood , list , stanzas , writing

Hell is a State of Mind

I am a man at home folding my wife’s delicates. Outside, there’s a ruckus, as usual. It begins with the flies. Noisy, black flies. I do not ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHowieGood , free verse , index , titles

Rust Belt Americana

Searching for Pittsburgh Going there To see if something comes next Finding something How to love the dead A year later Explicating the twil...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , free verse , health , wikipedia

Blind Man's Bluff

It may be some days before relatives or nursing staff stumble onto the fact that the patient has actually become sightless. The patient ordi...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

age , book , byHowieGood , free verse , quotation , sex

The Pornography of Everyday Life

Last year, I woke up in a hotel room in Amsterdam. There was a woman in my bed. I looked in the mirror and saw that my eyebrows were gray. I...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , death , last words , quotation , stanzas

The Shores of Tripoli

1 Never sell the bones of your father and mother. Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. The bastards tried to come over me...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , facebook , free verse

And That’s What It’s All About

Notes, instructions, etc., ring in the wee hours, or while ill or forgotten, robotic programming for doing the hokey-pokey Jackson Pollack...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , list , music , rules

How to Be a Bluesman

1 Never have a happy relationship. If you do find yourself involved in a happy relationship, kill your partner and then write a song about i...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

art , byHowieGood , catalogue , free verse

Echoes of Silence

Killed the family and went to the movies. And nobody knows who he is. Meat tenderizer and saliva remove bloodstains. Fornication changes its...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

art , byHowieGood , free verse , letter

Can Art Be Taught?

Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, won...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , science , speech , stanzas

Scientific American

You sink into their brains a little socket with a screw on it and the electrode can then be screwed deeper and deeper into the brainstem, an...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , free verse , radio , space

Place & Time

The atoms in a fluid can roll and tumble and cascade around each other. It's that flowing freedom that gives fluid motion its hypnotic q...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

article , byHowieGood , car , free verse

Futurama

As the car in front of us stopped, the lanky German driving our car indicated that he was going to look away from the road and slam on the a...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , free verse , internet , prayer

Mysterious ways

I needed a new car as my old one was so unreliable it kept breaking down. I couldn’t see any way that I could afford to get one. After I pra...

historis 15 Jun, 2021