THE HARDCASE SPEAKS

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THE HARDCASE SPEAKS.

From Contraband #2

In fields and christless al ies the psalter is handed greedily around with purple bottles of cheap port punctuated by the sodium lightness glare of freights rising past hobo cinder gantries and pitless bramble hol ows: Dukane, Grand Rapids, Cedar Forks, Harlow, Dover-Foxcroft, names from the back platform of the A-train so don't gimme that shit don't gimme that crap I'l put the hoodoo on you, I can do it, it comes in a can in 1954 in a back al ey behind a bar they found a lady cut in four pieces and written in her juice on the bricks above he had scrawled PLEASE STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN in letters that leaned and draggled so they cal ed him The Cleveland Torso Murderer and never caught him, it figures

al these liberals are brainless

if you want to see jeans just peak into any alabaster gravel pit in Mestalinas

al these liberals have hairy shirts

Real life is in the back row of a 2nd run movie house in Utica, have you been there

this guy with his hair greased back was drunk and getting drunker when I sat down and his face kept twisting; he cried I'm a goddamn stupid sonofabitch but doan choo try to tel me nothin I didn't he might have come from Cleveland

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store in Smal s Fal s and watch a cloud under the high blue sky ripple the last shadows of summer over the asphalt parking lot two acres wide

A real hack believes blackboards are true for myself I would turn them al soft like custard scoop them feed them to blackbirds save corn for murderers in huge and ancient Buicks sperm grows on seatcovers and flows upstream toward the sound of Chuck Berry once I saw a drunk in Redcliff and he had stuffed a newspaper in his mouth he jigged jubilantly

around a two shadowed light pole

I could gun you down with magic nose bul ets There are stil drugstore saints

Stil virgins pedal ing bikes with playing cards affixed to the rear spokes with clothespins

The students have made things up

The liberals have shit themselves and produced a satchel-load of smel y numbers

Radicals scratch secret sores and pore over back numbers bore a little hole in your head sez I insert a candle light a light for Charlie Starkweather and let your little light shine shine shine

play bebop

buy styrofoam dice on 42nd street

eat sno-cones and read Lois Lane

Learn to do magic like me and we wil drive to Princeton in an old Ford with four retread skins and a loose manifold that boils up the graphite stink of freshcooked

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exhaust we wil do hexes with Budweiser pentagrams and old Diamond matchboxes

chew some Red Man and let the juice down your chin when you spit sprinkle sawdust on weird messes

buy some plastic puke at Atlantic City throw away your tape player and gobble Baby Ruths Go now. I think you are ready.

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