"If I wanna find out anything, I'm not gonna read any of these magazines. They have too much to lose by printing the truth."
"What truth?"
"Anything, even on a worldwide level. They'd go off the stands if they printed the real truth."
"What is the real truth?"
"Just a PLAIN PICTURE." - Lenny Bruce

Makeshift patriot, the flag shop is out of stock
I hang myself at half mast
(How's my hair look?)
Makeshift patriot, the...
I hang myself at half mast
(Run that tape back!)
Makeshift patriot, the...
I hang myself at half mast
(It looks just like a movie)
~Sage Francis 2002

I can feel no sense of measure / No illusions as we take / Refuge in young plant's pleasure / Breaking down the dreams we make / REAL

May my novels soon frolic among you.
"The older writers have not necessarily learned 'craft' any better than the younger; nor have they even - necessarily - learned more of the language itself. They simply have more interesting critical material in which to observe play." ~ Samuel R. Delany (1983)