No Moon.No Moon. I was afraid this would happen the way the night looks with no moon The way the wind whistles off the back porch You want to love me How can I tell you I have a life but I don't have a life What can I tell you Shall I tell you about the bars that don't speak or the razor wire that longs to sever the throat or the cold winds that bounce off the emptiness Shall I tell you about the trees 200 yards away across the river of electric wire How the trees haunt me like the smell of barbeque the scent of a mountain meadow the sight of crimson painted toes. Across the river, across the fields across the hills there is wine that belongs to no one What can I tell you Shall I tell you about the lovely women I never had Shall I tell you about the moon fading away like a piece of hard round candy I was afraid this would happen the way the night feels with no moon the way the wind whistles off the back porch pushing on the screen door like ten cats, like ten mad men fighting. Spoon Jackson Spoon Jackson was born in 1958 in Barstow, California. In 1977 he was sentenced to life with no parole for murder. He has served time at six different prisons in the state of California and is currently serving time at California State Prison-Sacramento (New Folsom). is a poet/writer who has been in prison since 1977, when he was nineteen. His work has been published in Exquisite Corpse Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. , California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Quarterly, and evergreenreview.com. He has won three PEN writing awards. The short film documentary "Three Poems by Spoon Jackson" won five short film awards in five different countries. He also played Pozzo Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well"). On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano), cruelly using and in "Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot tramps consider hanging themselves because Godot has failed to arrive to set things straight. [Anglo-French Drama: Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot in Magill III, 1113] See : Despair Waiting for Godot ," with the late great Samuel Beckett's blessing. Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. currently resides at New Folsom Prison in Represa, California. His website is www.spoonjackson.com. |
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