poetry – Rowsdowr

Japanese Night

baltian — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:42:18 +0000

i miss the japanese night with her swollen melancholic moon the sad grey clouds sporadically lit by exploding stars and the hum of rice growing under the furtive haiku breeze but i miss the night more in conversation it seems my eyes betray me but my words do more than convey the elusive and futile […]

words from our newest contributor

baltian — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:34:14 +0000

After twenty million stars and I’m still no closer These hands dipped in magnetic rings resonant with moonlight Feel nothing One hundred offers of peace to the enemy And one hundred one rejections with a bullet I’ve read books to please women. Women please me to please the books. A friend drew himself together and […]

A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:38:35 +0000

For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison — thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger — thanks for […]

Pull the plug

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:30:38 +0000

Going through the motions Cold, soulless, cliché I’ve become a robot Impersonating somebody I’ve never met With smiles painted over rusted metal resentment Gears and guts in grinding dissonance Something is broken My programming is flawed, fucked up, infested with bugs The bugs make me hate Make me ache Make me wish all this would […]