I intended to collect 2020 Haiku poems into a book and publish it quarterly, after the world tilted toward a new trajectory due to novel coronavirus, as you will see, my writing shatters slowly returning to freestyle rhyme and longer pieces, trying to make meaning of the new world of 2020 and what lies beyond … Continue reading About 2020: Squintin Quarantino
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SECOND WAVE COMING – SQUINTIN QUARANTINO
At central station, with a note for the nationYou’re testin’ my patience, we doe’ need no more patientsIt’s just simple I ask, not a difficult taskJust wash your grubby hands and then put on a maskIf you...think it a hoax, then you endanger our folksPolitical purists want cash from the touristsDon’t say the word, that … Continue reading SECOND WAVE COMING – SQUINTIN QUARANTINO
Johnson Hancock Cummings Gove
Hancock: “We need a new slogan, er, something good” Johnson: “Er, er, well, I thought that, er...stop...er” Cummings: “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me, I like that one? Gove: “Oh Dominic, less of the bad language chap” Johnson: “Oh delightful Dom, er, or just um, do what we say in er, bod, … Continue reading Johnson Hancock Cummings Gove
Flu Romance – Squintin Quarantino
(Shout out to Culpatino...no blame. Big up Gravitino, I feel you) My gloves are on, the detergent is drawn I’m ready for the virus from dusk till dawn Break the trance with the vibes from Brian Eno The sound flew off the tracks cuz’ I’m Squintin Quarantino I’m like Kurt Russel in Escape From New … Continue reading Flu Romance – Squintin Quarantino
2020: SQUINTIN QUARANTINO (NEW BOOK OF POETRY, TWEETS, BLOGS)
Support me at Patreon and get a PDF copy. Thanks for sharing. HI all, How are you? I compiled a large portion of poetry and other blogs from 2020 into a book. My beloved Patreon supporters have a name drop and dedication. I decided to publish the book through KDP in a Kindle edition, it … Continue reading 2020: SQUINTIN QUARANTINO (NEW BOOK OF POETRY, TWEETS, BLOGS)
DUDLEY CAN YOU HEAR ME?
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Bluebells Saltwells And Mordor
“Halfway up Brierley Hill, he points to the quiet street-lit valley below. All empty industrial estates and small, coiled ribbons of housing. ‘When I was a kid, you’d come up this hill, and all of that’ – and he gestures to the valley in front of us – ‘was on fire. The foundries and the … Continue reading Bluebells Saltwells And Mordor
2018 Kilgour Lecture by Cory Doctorow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-x-8Iucr6I Author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow delivered the 2018 OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture on April 27 at 10 am in the CURRENT ArtSpace. In his talk, titled “The Internet, Peak Indifference, and the Point of No Return,” Doctorow argues that now is the time to permanently install freedom in the world's new electronic nervous … Continue reading 2018 Kilgour Lecture by Cory Doctorow
Some real fresh shit
...what does it all mean? …watch out kid, watch yer’ back, keep it on point. Wobble, but come back to your center. Make it count, everything counts. All our days are numbered, and littered with the lettered. Let us play. rewind, forward, future calling, humming your song, calling, singing, shouting you. Oi, listen, look, read, … Continue reading Some real fresh shit
Quick Lil’ Joint
A QUICK JOINT Eyes down to the paper fold in a gentle slope from left to right to cradle the sacrament, the angle of the sloping fold proportional to the final cone shape arrange the sacrament with slightly more at left or right reversing instruction take the paper between thumb and forefinger and index … Continue reading Quick Lil’ Joint
DEEP SCRATCH 