Junkyard Quote Week 2

1.  "a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that i am a poet..." -Bob Dylan in the liner notes of Bringing It All Back Home
2. "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" -Captain Beefheart from Trout Mask Replica.
3."There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed." -Peter Sellers
4. "A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on." -William S. Burroughs, one of my favorites.
5. "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. " -Kurt Vnnegut from his novel, The Sirens of Titan.

Random writing week 2: The Toreador

Juan Belmonte
Dragooned tobbacco from hand rolled
Fat man fingers
He swallowed and gulped and sat partywise
During moonlight hours he would be seen under red light
With vultures on his arms, two or three at a time
He fought bulls
With gallantry and grace
Sitting close
Breath meeting and dusty knees
Red flash like the red night
Toro! Toro! Toro!
Toreador.
Writer friend and walking myth
Juan Belmonte
Name sounds like rolling crescendo of notes
Fat man fingers
75 years
With a weakened clockworker
But with his cape still crimson
He went to town on his horse
He got his two vultures
He sipped, gulped, chugged, engulfed
He went out like burning home
Taking the tenets with him
The vulture pecking at him
Warmed stomach
And a heart heaved with ending

Week 1 Student Response

You're suffering from the Hero Comples
Attempting to save one charity case at a time
but forgetting that you need to save yourself first

I found this interesting and brutal. the length helps it alot. but it could be expanded.  very well done.

Random Writing: A Limerick i think? lol

when the hunter came back from hunting

without a drop to eat

the starvers went to starving

and took to chewing wheat

Random Writing: December 17

Bald poets grin in mug shots shown
while bearded boys crash cars
headlong with qhite trucks
blondes celebrate birthdays in the corner
with dancing people taking up her floor
Russian women kill chickens
becase it's her dream to have red sleeves
and Mirror Men die of disease

Junk Quotes

1."White hearty White Bread for White White People"
-episode of MST3K. Stood out for me. Remined me of Ginsberg, WCW, or Bukowski.

2 "Or as your people would say (clicking noises)"
-overheard this over the snow week at the airport. A woman was with her African boyfriend (he had on a shirt with Kenya on it and spoke with an accent) and he apparantly told her a joke and she replied with the previous statement. It made my insides laugh in it's awfulness.

3. "How is it possible that after 5 years of working here that I have had two engagement rings, but only one chair?"
-episode of The Office

4. "Are you praying for scientific salvation?"
-from Dr. Chowns, my Geology professor. I was sitting on my knees during the lab because there was no chairs ready, so I kneeled.

5. "Is there anyone left in Canada?"
    "No. I think we all came here."\
_My dad to a Canadian tourist in Mexico.