‘Writings & Poems’ Archives
Go Ask Mary …
Go Ask Mary … (A Short Story by Andy Bang) It’s crazy hot, my AC is busted and I’m already late for a gig across town. I’m headin’ out to review a punk show at a club I’ve never been to before. I’d say its around 90 degrees [Read More]
Dreams Come True
Dreams Come True (A Poem by Jim Slimedog) Dreams Of your generation Don’t usually Come true As most dreams don’t Individually or collectively Life Is a disappointment for all But the unambitious In scope at least If not material gain People Are a big part Of the [Read More]
Lo Mein
Lo Mein (A Poem by Jim Slimedog) I would like some lo mein I would like to live in a life Where cruelty is not the norm I would like to live in a life Where death Wasn’t a welcome respite for many Where the meek Weren’t driven headlong into the sand A land, [Read More]
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (A Poem by Jim Slimedog) This is a story About Billie Holiday Just about the best gosh darn Singer ever And she died an early death In a hospital Under police watch If she survived I guess they’d have taken her to jail And I can’t believe in a God [Read More]
Van Go
Van Go (A Poem by Jim Slimedog) Van Gogh He sometimes ate his paint When he wasn’t using them To create masterpieces And now companies Buy them up 50 million, 60 million And up They’re trying To buy What resided In his heart, his mind and his soul They’re [Read More]
Fake Fireplace
Fake Fireplace (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog) They push through the crowds of the 9-5ers on their way home from work — from one prison to the next, from a job that’s a life sentence to a spouse and kids as the same. But not for these two, Janice is [Read More]
A Shot At Life
A Shot At Life (An Essay by Jim Slimedog) Set me up; set me up with another shot and beer. A shot to symbolize what you have to take that’s bitter in life and a beer to soothe out the aftermath, what eases you out of the pain. I’m sittin’ on the [Read More]
More Than Even Heroin
More Than Even Heroin (Heroin Romance) (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog The club’s shut down and he’s long been paid, behaved himself at least to get through the sets without seeming too depraved. Of course, that’s some of the ticket, some of the show, why people [Read More]
Firecracker Flo
Firecracker Flo (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog) “Yeah, buy me one of those firecrackers, hon,” Flo says to Joey beside her. She’s swaying to the music of the jukebox playing some oldie from the seventies best forgotten. But it doesn’t take much to get Flo [Read More]
The Man from Mass.
There once was a man from Mass, Whose balls were made out brass. He struck them together, In light stormy weather, And lightning shot out of his ass … [Read More]
