Showing posts with label Stephen Caratzas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Caratzas. Show all posts
Friday, January 25, 2013
POEM TO BE READ IN THE VOICE OF TOM WAITS
Let's all go out to lunch with this fifty dollar bill
I stole from my Mama's purse along with a skull ring
I took off her old man's finger passed out on the threadbare carpet
I know a place with coffee so strong bent spoons stand up straight after you're done stirring
and if there isn't a dead fly in the metal container for the creamer
they've been known to tear up your check at the register
and toss it over your head like confetti on New Year's Eve
We can ask for one of Bertha's tables she's the waitress with the best ass
but that might mean waiting because everyone has the same idea about Bertha's great ass
but it's cool because I brought along the pennysaver and we can read it
and laugh at people trying to sell plastic lawn furniture in the middle of January
Hey wait a second I could use a table just that size
to go next to my barcalounger i'll put my horseshoe ashtray on it
and still have room for a can of whatever beer's on sale that week at Foodtown
and the TV remote after I get the set out of hock
About Stephen Caratzas:
Stephen Caratzas is a writer, musician and visual artist currently living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Friday, February 24, 2012
TWO PIECES BY STEPHEN CARATZAS
THE ASKING PRICE
The wind is crueler
In these climes
Than in most other
Places
A hand over your
Heart
Tells me everything
About the weather
Hearing the floorboards
Creak
Is a sign of life
And of loss
When I have courage
I more easily see
The possibilities in
Love
LIKE YOU’LL NEVER LET ME GO
After all these years
Finally hearing
John Denver’s version of
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Made me cry
And there’s really nothing
To be done about it.
About Stephen Caratzas:
Stephen Caratzas is the author of It Will Be A Train (2004), The Incredulity Tour (2005) and Past Present Suture (Drifting Man Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in Terra Incognita, the tiny, Maintenant 5, Tattoosday, Lyre Lyre and other publications. When not writing he plays guitar in the lo-fi experimental band Gert Fröbe. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
The wind is crueler
In these climes
Than in most other
Places
A hand over your
Heart
Tells me everything
About the weather
Hearing the floorboards
Creak
Is a sign of life
And of loss
When I have courage
I more easily see
The possibilities in
Love
LIKE YOU’LL NEVER LET ME GO
After all these years
Finally hearing
John Denver’s version of
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Made me cry
And there’s really nothing
To be done about it.
About Stephen Caratzas:
Stephen Caratzas is the author of It Will Be A Train (2004), The Incredulity Tour (2005) and Past Present Suture (Drifting Man Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in Terra Incognita, the tiny, Maintenant 5, Tattoosday, Lyre Lyre and other publications. When not writing he plays guitar in the lo-fi experimental band Gert Fröbe. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
TWO HUMOROUS VIGNETTES BY STEPHEN CARATZAS
WRITING THE SAME POEM SINCE 1980
he wishes he was the protagonist
in a science fiction novel
who is sent back in time
to prevent the creation of hair product
so A Flock Of Seagulls
would never exist
he wishes he was the protagonist
in a science fiction novel
who is sent back in time
to prevent the creation of hair product
so A Flock Of Seagulls
would never exist
THE JETHRO TULL STORY
Tights + flute =
rock & roll?
Discuss.
About Stephen Caratzas:
Stephen Caratzas is a writer, artist and musician living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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