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    Contents

    I

    Boys and Girls in America 3

    Why doesnt drinking ever learn its lesson? 5On the Highline 6

    School Dance 7

    tie dye delight 8

    The Dining Room 9

    Salvation II 11

    Memo to My M.O. [what the hell is a modus operandi?] 12

    II

    novella 17

    What Happened in Apartment 4A? 25

    III

    Everywhere But Here 33in my dreams 35

    listen for in-spir-ation 36

    an unnecessary incident 37

    Salvation 39

    Me & You 40

    Gone 41

    lost laugther in the white mountains 42

    Color Photos in The New York Times 44

    Statement of Poetics from the Author 48

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    I

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    Boys and Girls in America

    for Jack Kerouac

    Isnt it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing ineverything under your fathers roof? Took off his oversized

    smoking jacket & penny loafers and went to burn trees in

    Prospect Park with friends. Spoke about god and dust and space

    and how plants work, especially the one we burn. Gained some

    new thoughts. We fumed and screamed in our metropolitan nook,

    mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. Let us go far away

    from the metropolis cesspool. The verdure of the park is closest wecome to nature without leaving home. Seek New Englands terrain.

    Listen to The Hold SteadysBoys and Girls in America. Had such

    a sad time together the night we got locked up.

    Singing 90s alternative rock tunes. Raised voices echo from the

    woods every youthful summer. We were in the concrete jungles of

    America and all we could do was yell fuck across the night. Then

    a complete silence fell over everybody. Staring at starless skies

    when the batteries killed the sound & the cricket symphony started

    to play Festival Overture in E at major. Kiss me. And for just a

    moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to

    reach. Blew smoke in her face to show I care. Recite songs from

    our preschool days to ll the air with somethin besides dope and

    smog. There is still a nontoxic hope.

    Search for the mythos hiding inside my chest cavity using surgi-

    cal exploratory tools: the road, scalpel, a few dollars and the never

    ending dream of her. Whats your road, man? Do you have the

    balls to pick up and go? Remember her warm body. Here I am a

    child of the American rock night.

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    When the sun goes down on Lookout Point and I sit on the old

    broken-down bench outside the woods watching the long, long

    skies over Brooklyn and sense all that industrial land that rolls in

    one unbelievable huge bulge over the East Coast, and all that road

    going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it... andtonight the stars wont be out again, and dont you know that God

    is Bugs Bunny?

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    Why doesnt drinking ever learn its lesson?

    She loved the autumn elds while the sun set, he loved her titian

    curls in the wind, dancing to sounds of the earth singing.

    PRIVATE PROPERTY NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

    Disregarding the sign protecting the cemetery felt so right and that

    evening they poured some out for Montgomery Clift.

    As a kid he was always curious about why Benny breathed in

    and out, in and out, in and out through one paper bag then drank

    from another on the Parkside bench. As a teen he learned why theneighborhood called him Benny glue head.

    Being able to drink in bars at sixteen sped up life for them. To

    keep a rep in a town where people thrive on being professional

    alcoholics, it is easy to end up with scarred knuckles and a broken

    nose.

    The Sunday morning delivery of the Daily News & the brown

    paper bag of bagels and rolls against the bodega storefront fell

    victim to drunkards stumbling across 5th avenue.

    People age slowly when you see the same faces every day.

    Drink like a human hun, your killin ya liver!

    Every time she sees the scar on her cheek, the mental video replays

    over until tears temporarily wash it away.

    Flames lit up the woods with rage from the beast after seeing her

    with another guy. The arsonist was yet to be found.

    The glare from the rising sun woke him in a parked car along the

    expressway when he realized it wasnt his blood on the windshield.

    She drowns herself in bourbon after his funeral.

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    On the Highline

    A bell rings and it remind me of church

    When was the last time I was in a church for church?

    not a readingnot a funeral

    not a forced holiday

    will I ever go back?

    On a wooden bench with a imsy back

    I am sitting next to four Asian girls, noYoung women

    Chinese, Japanese, Korean, I cant tell

    They all look like sisters

    Yelling at each other

    A ock of birds exotically chirping

    The cute one leans against the rail

    Pink sunglasses matching her dress

    I pretend I understand the conversation:

    Take a picture

    Take a picture

    Smile Beverley

    CHEESE!

    Whered you get those shades girl

    That dress makes your butt look big

    Hey guys, lets get outta here

    Look at this creep staring at us

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    School Dance

    Speak to me

    and it sounds like white noise.

    Yea, I saw her stop dancing with youWhen she realized

    That was cum on your pants

    Stare at me

    and all I see is white light.

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    tie dye delight

    like the old hippie smokin a bone

    frolic to the Dead,

    feel free

    ask the shaman for a quarter

    open your mind, dance

    with me

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    The Dining Room

    The dining room was many colors over the years

    Green, red, white, beige and it is now magenta with a white ceiling

    The china closet glass looks me in the face

    The china plates have never held my food

    The crystal glasses have never touched my lips

    I store concert tickets on the right side of the closet

    I also keep money in a mini ceramic urn

    Those spots are for safe keepings

    My birthday candle is stored in the china closet

    A little Indian boy sitting in Indian style with an orange candle

    coming from his head

    A birthday card is put in the little slip where the wood and the glass

    window meet

    It holds the card on one side, thus on display for anyone to read

    No one does though. After a couple days they go in the trash

    On Sundays the sauce would be lling the dinning room with the

    aroma of tomatoes & meats

    Whenever mother would fry the eggplant and chicken cutlets were

    my favorite times

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    I would be allowed to grate the mozzarella at the dinning room

    table for her to make them parmesan

    The good old days of my innocence

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    Salvation II

    The Salvation is hidden in the woods

    Seek ItFeel It

    Find It

    Take It

    Oneself

    Out into the great wide open

    Grasp a hold

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    Memo to My M.O. [what the hell is a modus operandi?]

    Spray paint from seven years ago remind tears to squeeze out as I

    pass by the granite monument where teenage angst skateboards on

    memories.

    Ash trays and Tupperware ll my oak dresser drawer I call it the

    Shrine and after so many years the smell becomes unbearably

    pungent, like a resin mold funk living in unison with my shirts and

    underwear, so my mother makes me clean it. But I dont.

    Evolution Neighborhood bums are an endangered species.Survival of the ttest and procreation are killing of the locals.

    I picked some owers for our rst date and you broke out in hives.

    Urticaria brought us together.

    Revolving doors spin round and round get me dizzy and I relapse

    on adrenaline again.

    I met her through my friends cousin technically at the time

    he was not my friend, rather an acquaintance, since I only spoke

    to him at the neighborhood bars, which were the only times we

    crossed paths and I did not even have his number. He eventually

    became a friend. I guess alcohol, cigarettes and the Mets were what

    bonded us.

    The days of cutting class and playing lets get fucked up in the

    park bushes called the bum spot are gone. Now we play indoors.

    Sharing surprise party for returning soldier and jealous little

    brother are crashed by drunken stepfather.

    Walking past the boarded up movie theater smells like pot and I

    start to crave popcorn. When we turn the corner holding hands,

    her mother asks us if we want a rip. You decline, I accept with a

    gracious smile and cough up some greenish brown phlegm.

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    Nothing is a good idea, but rather an opinion on how your

    conscience eyes deem t.

    Kicking every garbage can over on the walk home from Farrells

    helps suppress the reality that you really are gone.

    Seeing childrens sticky faces from cherry ices while their parents

    eat lemon with a wooden spoon in front of the pizzeria reminds me

    of summer days in the park with everyone that I now shut out of

    my life.

    Recuperating from hangovers is a weekly hobby, better than a dailyhobby. Sometimes.

    Losing my right shoe on the side of the turnpike and losing my

    best friend taught me a life lesson. Dont drive drunk.

    The most expensive, exclusive sneakers were once something I

    cherished. Breaths and heartbeats are so much more valuable intodays economy.

    The winter encourages red hands and cold ngers and it is not from

    making and igloo or a snow man.

    Instead of learning about Shakespeare or science, children learn

    about drinking kegs, selling drugs and pissing in bushes.

    I take big sips from fathers ask to feel like a real man, maybe

    it will put hair on my chest, and I rell it with water to avoid a

    beating.

    Steal a twenty from mom with her knowing Im getting high.

    We laugh in the wet grass holding hands until the sun comes up

    and I can nally go home, but not without the thoughts of hate and

    if I will ever make peace with myself.

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    I remember sitting on the boulders right off the hill and asking

    you with all sincerity why are all the things that we do so bad for

    you, but feel so fucking good, and you kissed me softly where my

    sideburn would be if I was a man and told me we were over.

    Getting arrested for all the wrong reasons and spitting in the cops

    face for all the right ones did not help in court.

    Playing hockey and basketball encouraged us to make positive

    decisions, but why did we all decide to drink our childhood away?

    Sex in the rain never felt right, but we did it anyway.

    Bob Dylan played across the eld as the coolers slowly dwindled

    and my vision became less coherent but my ears still worked

    properly and I remember being on the pavement thinking about the

    government and if it is more fucked up than I am.

    Staring at the puppies in the pet shop window on 5th avenue and Inotice my glare showing me a small stream of blood seeping from

    my nose and I wipe and nothing is there.

    Eating potatoes and eggs at midnight with grandpa makes me

    smile, which I havent done since the summer of 97, and he told

    me what I should do to make things right.

    Confess all my sins to my mother. Her pastor is a pedophile and we

    cry.

    Those loose pants told me the more things change, the more they

    stay the same.

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    II

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    novella

    fall down face plant the steps of the house

    blood trickles from fat lip

    pissing the bed

    yellow & red stains seep into bedbug territory

    the easy way to escape is drink or drug

    but the high doesnt last for too long

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    demons with burned faces haunt the psyche/families of

    wounded folks once buried after war/a wreath of thorns hang from

    a wooden door on national drive/pierce and spill blood on the

    cement sidewalk paved over the esh of the original city.

    spend nights at a coke bar/theyre all coke bars/drowning in

    canadian club whiskey/numb entrails slowly weaken thought

    process/think with the head not guts/provoke the lost smile to come

    out and play again.

    the gut takes over thought process/leave smile home/order drinks

    till cross-eyed and painless.

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    eyes met at the jukebox

    hips hypnotize with each step

    walking sex

    the goggles are made to see objects not peoplehidden beyond eyes

    bewildering blue

    she commands to dig into her

    epidermal pores exchange uids

    stench of a dark ladies room is clear of urinals

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    deliberate inebriation/run from the demons lurking and creeping

    around in dark corners/ barrooms hidden in basements/phantoms/

    watch over the walk-in fridge where she sniffs lines off cases of

    budweiser/chase with a vicodin/level out/undressed hard nipples.

    she cums again.

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    hes gone. gone. nothings gonna bring him back. hes gone.

    he is in hearthe is in mind

    he is in arms

    legs

    hands

    guts

    hair

    stomachfeet

    eyes

    nose

    kept alive inside

    kept alive through ones embodiment of him

    kept alive

    the smell of his old baseball jersey and cap

    the vitamins you advised one a day

    the scar from a ght slamming head on little red park slide

    the glass angel sitting on a mantle above the bed

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    bar air is toxic/do not breathe re lungs/dead only till the hit wears

    thin/shoe laces are the thickness preferred like your thighs tight

    in those jeans/kept alive till 99 bottles of beer on the wall/ pink

    oyd records spin all night/speak of a woman yelled & my sis

    slapped the bitch & kicked out the old school jams/beatings/alwayssurround violence or sex no one keeps the peace.

    drinking hours bodega storefront/no lights after dark/crawlspace

    conned piss stain queen mattress/the sun and esh comes up

    again.

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    spiral staircase inside the cranium

    spin out of control, need to regain consciousness

    take off the goggles gain back the senses

    realization of your departuredid not sink in when at your corpse

    rather drowning in a cascade of booze

    hitting the oor on several occasions

    getting the shit literally beat out

    impregnating her

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    new day/44 hours later and a few days off the deep end/left

    behind black eyed piece of brain bitten off at the cerebral stem/

    in the corner of the room a rat picks at the chunk/doesnt like the

    bitter taste/connect it back to the spinal cord/loose connections/

    bedroom walls wont paint themselves/ask the rat to leave theroom/get dressed wash face brush teeth break glass with st/ tears

    tear down past a lone pimple under cheek/the rat laughs so step on

    the fucker and ush down the toilet/bad day little buddy.

    Id like to apologize for being a fuck up

    The angel falls off the mantle.

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    What Happened in Apartment 4A?

    The mind is full of boiled blood rushing against concentration from

    having to start from scratch.

    Observe the late night vehicles riding the Prospect Expressway can

    not tell what models or makes only in each car truck or bus is a life

    or lives residing in New York for a moment or a lifetime, a human

    being driving the vehicle could be with companions, him her or

    they pays bills, were birthed into the physical world Earth and may

    have a pet, a cat or bird but probably a brown pudelpointer named

    Mitch.

    Dead Christmas lights border round algae incrusted pool in late

    September.

    Photoshop cartoon images of his twin infant daughters in neon

    green electric blue avant-garde.

    After Mr. Mahoneys class, sequences of dj vu in the schoolyard:

    I be twistin in the mornin

    twistin in the evenin twistin

    afta suppa time Frankie

    always sang with

    a melody before lightingup the dipped cigarette. Shut up

    ya burnout, hu huh Ricky always responded, as

    they leaned perched against the brick wall

    under the black staircase to the caf.

    Dustheads.

    A kindergarten classroom loaded with noisy children and nontoxic

    paint of all colors leaves Carlos a mess of ngerprints after 3 p.m.

    Quickly drive past a mangled black PT Cruiser, reminder of dead

    water bugs on back in the basement.

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    The subway on the corner a ride to the city with a tuna sandwich

    covered in red onion and sweet peppers.

    The dark clouds reign over frigid New York City on Halloween but

    there is a drought in the Northeast.

    A tribesman clad in regalia of eagle feathers and beaded buckskins

    walks along Route 17.

    Sermons on Parkside consisted of 40s, stuffed vanilla dutchies and

    bullshit.

    Sifting through ashes of a lost home in search for the portrait of a

    dead brother.

    Computers take on roles of functioning human beings. Pay a one

    time fee rather than weekly.

    I stare across Flatbush Avenue elevated in a classroom ofyoungsters when a man in overalls & orange hardhat makes eye

    contact with me as he rides the workman elevator up a cobalt

    protective wall of developing condos.

    The guy and girl in apartment 4A both wear black nail polish

    Do you think they

    do each others nails?

    I think she was a Scottish woman (disgruntled wrinkly forehead,

    ball ended nose and ery red hair and matching cheeks) who rode a

    bike in a knee length skirt and I wonder how comfortable that is.

    The upheaval on 10th Avenue from a brawl last night spilled

    alcohol fueled blood on the old gum and sparkle lled cracked

    cement sidewalks.

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    On the R train the girl with a red backpack had grass stains on

    the knees of her dark blue jeans and the brown haired boy with a

    3-inch scar on his lip shared a brown-bagged drink with her.

    Crates of jazz and classic rock albums collect dust in the closet.

    The letter for jury duty goes directly into the shredder.

    The thump sound from a phantom black car zooming by shook

    the ground and probably deafened the woman walking her golden

    retriever.

    This was not the same boardwalk as today. After World War II

    the boardwalk slowly, but inevitably, started to decay. Between

    the post war effects an intense rise in drugs, gangs and violence

    it was bound to happen. Coney Island was once a resort where

    families went to vacation, bond and love, during a time when

    decent moral values were supplementary.

    A starsh in the aquarium plays possum.

    The decorative spike of the black fence pierced little Nickys hand

    amid a game of manhunt.

    The door knob is such a sophisticated vention.

    The radiator was as cold as her feet when he woke on Valentines

    Day morning.

    The Knicks lose an upset if only one of the twenty four missed

    threes went in.

    In the darkness the glow from the silent speaker power light

    illuminates where the pens and stapler lay at rest.

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    The red and white tower resembling a mini Eifel with grey

    satellites controlling god knows what was around in the 1960s and

    still stands strong.

    Standing outside of McDonalds begging for change or working thesubway probably pays way better than minimum wage.

    The cabin had methodical wooden interior corresponded with the

    chestnut colored tiles that scattered the oor like a perfectly knit

    quilt.

    The August heat was rising ferociously as we walked through theforest, trying to dodge the patches of poison ivy. The ve of us

    were surrounded by wilderness; a wide array of trees and bushes,

    with a man-made worn in dirt path guiding us to our destination.

    The land became more and more eroded; a hill that gets steeper

    and steeper, and the more you walk, the more you feel it in your

    calves. We kept journeying the hill, passing all the assorted plant

    life till we reached our goal.

    He leaned against his yellow Gremlin outside Katz Deli while

    waiting for his mother with the order.

    A young man hopped on the subway track and grabbed a ve

    dollar bill. Is the risk really worth a ve?

    A man does an autumn photo shoot of himself in the woods on the

    Catskill side of the Rip Van Wrinkle Bridge, dressed in all white

    and jumping around, bouncing off tress and capturing the images

    mid air, as if he was Neo in the Matrix,

    Piss in a phone booth on 42nd street and get a ticket from an

    undercover ofcer.

    The light of the re slowly burns out as the sun creeps up the next

    morning.

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    The Tupperware has grease stains from Spanish steak and rice with

    red sauce.

    The handshake is clammy.

    The door bell rings. Out the foyer window, Jehovah Witnesses

    gather around the neighboring homes. A glass of water and back to

    the cozy bed.

    The bag of disheveled crayons from childhood sits on a shelf

    collecting dust.

    In the parlor lled with plastic coated furiture, a grandfather tells

    childhood stories to the children as the adults drink coffee and

    smoke cigarettes in the dinning room.

    The hawks y above the tree tops and one darts towards Earth,

    only to rise back joining the ock holding a rat or possum in its

    talons.

    A Stapler with Brooklyn Union Gas printed on it is two decades

    old.

    Antelopes run from hunters after the rst shot is red.

    Addidas tennis shoes with holes in them are used for shing.

    Some asshole threw a ham sandwich out his car window and hit

    my bike while riding on the side of the expressway.

    The empty afternoon bar was dead air. No music played through

    the sounds system.

    Raul nger picked smooth jazz scales on a red Les Paul.

    Lying on the cold oor printed on computer paper is 3 Pages by

    Ted Berrigan.

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    Leaning against the cold fence staring out into the familiar scene,

    I was admiring the orange and purple war going on in the sky. Ill

    never forget that image. It was the last innocent image I remember

    seeing. To this day, every time I see that war I cry.

    The voice in the f.m. radio at 2 a.m. enables me to create a face for

    him: sixty two, white wrinkly forehead, silver hair, wear and tear

    gut from years of drinking and blow. He loves Cream, Allmans and

    Skynard because he plays them the most and the late shift cause he

    can get away with boozing on the job.

    Cheers Ladies and Germs, here is one of my faves

    in a white room

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    III

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    Everywhere But Here

    The scene: the new guy punching the biggest guy in the cafeteria

    only happens in the movies.

    The convicts uproar when stale meatloaf is served for the fth

    time in eight days.

    Running mascara through plexiglas windows anger him when he

    cannot help her wipe it away.

    A cellmates thoughts are incandescently hidden in dark cornerslike a childs in time out.

    The boy, the girl and fairy tales at 3:00 a.m.

    Beatings occur in the west cell block mace and vomit dry into

    this weeks clothes.

    The warden wears a suit assuming a man of high stature.

    The color of coffee lightens behind these concrete walls.

    Smiles at the facility only occur in ofces. Only other place you

    might nd a smile: in dreams.

    Weep until the well is dry. Become numb.

    Making brown bag lunches a thing of the past, yearning of the

    future.

    The citric smells of a womans vagina is a fading memory.

    Violence is a normal part of ones newly acquired culture.

    Nurse Victor and the rest of the U.S. bring Ol Jinky his daily x in

    a little white paper cup.

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    Picture of son in youth jersey #8 is taped to the stone wall. Rules

    of football are long forgotten.

    The last car seen July, a red Ferrari hanging on Toms cell wall.

    Her sixteen candles are blown out while trying to remember what

    birthday cake taste like.

    Time is no longer a factor for some.

    Reveries of the past become a focal point in keeping a stance onsanity.

    The stench of piss wafts into the corridor and not one sour face is

    made.

    Spend two weeks in the hole for hoarding a cell phone and Red

    Man.

    Right of a prisoner is rite of passage.

    Every night before attempts at slumber lights out.

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    in my dreams

    When grandma dies I know my time is coming closer and I

    am aging, getting older and getting nowhere. The mantles with

    pictures of your grandchildren and mirrored portrait of grandpasfavorite the horse number 8 were reality but in my dreams the

    horse and the kids are dead.

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    listen for in-spir-ation

    not

    spir-itual

    lost

    ruins

    the aztecs & appalachian trail

    remains

    hidden

    a ghost

    quiet voice echoes

    misplaced headless body

    in mountain nooks & jungle jade

    searching

    valleys

    deserts

    NYC

    LA

    north

    west to eastsouth

    hidden among the living

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    an unnecessary incident

    for Monte Freire

    a boston red sox fanfrom new hampshire

    stabbed in the chest

    at the chowder pot restaurant

    in branford connecticut

    by a new york yankees fan

    from new haven

    a dispute over

    professional baseball

    teams

    a boston red sox fan

    underwent surgery

    to repair trachea& upper esophagus

    in yale-new haven

    medical

    a son waits for his father

    in the empty waiting room

    praying

    a new york yankees fan

    charged with:

    rst degree assault

    interfering with an ofcer

    tampering with evidence

    breach of peace &

    possession of a controlled substance

    leaves the hospital

    with minor injuries

    in handcuffs

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    a boston red sox fan

    comes out from surgery

    alive

    a son smiles at the doctors newsthen frowns

    for the prognosis

    is still unknown

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    Salvation

    Sole tranquility extrovert, the original body

    Abstruse enters, enhances within

    Let thy conquer the malevolence, destroyVermin director of immorality

    Advocator of benevolence control

    Take the sin residing

    Internal necrosis within

    Overcome the detestation

    Now maintain the serenity soul

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    Me & You

    Layers of chemicals

    Make up the land, me & you

    Carbon and cuticles

    Unequal yet equal too, me & you

    Brown bag blues

    Alligator shoes, me & you

    That old tennis racket &Ol Pops chiseled tomb, me & you

    Her red dress & Goldie Locks,

    The hair on the bear, me & you

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    Gone

    Two blue foot prints stare at me

    while she drives away in Pompeii

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    lost laugther in the white mountains

    slow day on mount washington

    seek the white owl

    tranquil snowy trailsask & ache in gloveless hands

    day

    hike

    try to wait patiently

    her shines slumber

    him to arisenight

    the man shows face

    quickly fades

    hidden behind a cloud

    come out

    reveal where owls y

    hours go by

    lay under dim lit stars

    the man goes home

    owls never seen

    she does not shine anymore

    clouds & lost laughter

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    nights when you kissed my bottom lip and told me you loved me

    and when you would make me pancakes and coffee breath made

    us laugh and when you drank whiskey at dinner parties and make

    snide comments about our parents we both laughed

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    Color Photos in TheNew York Times

    A lone man

    No shirt, straw hat

    Sits Indian styleCrying amongst the remains

    Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption

    Grey stones once formed buildings

    Crumbles

    He screamed as he rose

    Miot Miot

    The rubbleThe wreckage

    Blue and white mattresses

    Scatter under a matching tarp

    Louis Richard, 17

    Shares with 34 others, all ages

    Hunger & famine midst the homespun tentA battle

    Stay alive

    Makeshift ambulances

    Deliver a young mother & newborn

    To the 82nd Airborne Division

    Guards for the National Palace

    Carry a bloody corpse to a US Navy helicopter

    Fly away

    Steam rises

    A stadium in Jacmel

    Women tend to pots of beans

    Attempt to feed thousands & thousands

    Disheveled faces

    Port-au-Prince produce market

    Cabbage

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    Water from a truck

    Dented canned fruit

    Only in stock this week

    Filthy handsHold daughters withered body

    Sob & feed her the breast

    Wipe away brown tears

    Field hospitals setup on site

    Alongside re & rubble

    Wheelbarrows full of injuries

    Being carried on backsWomen give birth

    Women are raped

    People cram in a red and yellow van

    Upper & lower extremities

    Dangle from every window

    Destination: Les Cayes

    A group of men, woman & children

    Stare at US troops

    Where the walls are down

    The garden of the Presidential Palace

    Corporal Sajous explains in Creole

    Orphans board a plane to Pittsburg

    A Haitian police ofcer

    Threw a looter to the ground

    Pointed his pistol

    But did not shoot

    A family gathers from a fallen home

    White plastic patio chairs

    Pillows & blankets

    Mattress

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    Crayons

    Clothes stuffed in a beige leather suitcase

    A French board game

    A boy rides his bikeOn a small dirt pathway

    Downed power lines

    Sodden wood

    The descent of buildings

    A once functioning

    Downtown Leogane

    The mourners march through the streets

    Gather around his black hearse

    The women sing for Guy Perpignant

    Their pastor

    During the funeral

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    Statement of Poetics from the Author

    Exploring the language on the page, whether reading or writing the

    words, is a unique world a habitat to be dissected, deciphered

    and translated, then celebrated amongst other readers and writ-ers involved in the poetic community. Sharing poems, performing

    readings and collaborating with other poets become irresistible.

    My venture intoLast Stop, Terrapin Station has brought my ambi-

    tions to another level and my growing improvement on the poetics

    has evolved. Experimenting with the newly introduced poeia has

    elevated and opened up the page for me. Creating poems daily

    becomes an obsession. The pen hits the paper and I am reading infront of a mirror in my basement, performing and working with my

    vocals. I have acquired a vast amount of knowledge this semester

    and am going to keep at it. From the mysterious one liner to pages

    of constructions searching for the mythos,Last Stop, Terrapin

    Station has evolved by digging into the past and producing in the

    future.

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