To live to see the great day that dawns / And the light that fills the world. — From an old Inuit song. Guy de Michêl sat in a bar in Yellowknife. It had been …
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Saved by a Motown Girl
MORE IN THE MISADVENTURES OF GUIDO MICHELINI, VAGABOND WRITER AND SCREWED-UP SCOUNDREL For a long time he lived in his car. He showered in the homes of one-night stands. All his belongings were in the …
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Conversation with my cat
GOD AND THE CAT GOD I tape record this with no regrets My cat has grown weary of my threats In the weeks since the death of my wife To take a shotgun and end …
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Loss of a soulmate
SIT THERE VERY STILL Waves of shock and disbelief Relentlessly rack your grief. You wander through empty rooms Sucking in cigarette fumes. You pray for vindication Please God an indication Some semblance of her presence …
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Back to oblivion
GONE I’m not ready to rejoin humankind I keep in touch on this blog obliquely Wrought words from a semiconscious mind Rendered honestly albeit bleakly. I admit under scientific law And the force of reality’s …
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Driving without poetic license
80-PROOF INSPIRATION He was a sensitive young poet man Got pulled over to the side of the ode For something really fucking stupid man Like being drunk on one helluva line The result of ten …
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Dirty Henry and the Grim Reaper
LIFE IS GRIMM I am in hell, Henry cried when his brothers and son died. Oh, really, says Grim, just wait — and cuts down his last soul mate! Who’s next, you sick piece of …
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Of cats and the dead
I don’t get out much anymore. I stay inside with the cat. I myself am turning into a cat. I eat like the cat — cold salmon on a small plate; I sleep like the …
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Black python
Guido Michelini showered in the basement of Grand Central Station. Two quarters in the turnstile for a torn towel and a piece of soap with hair on it. He wasn’t a bona fide bum. The …
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Guido Michelini — an update
Guido Michelini came to these shores and sated himself with a hundred whores. A good reporter but a total flake he left job after job in a wild wake. But he kept writing this one …