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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 2014)
street roots 13 June 6, 2014 Home base By Avendor KB T l J iW q fMMSwl h 1, In my apartment are encyclopedias I read about Napoleon. There is also music I hear “Jane Says” on the radio. I have food too frozen sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. My cat is somewhere around here she does what she wants. I have a singing teddy bear in a devil’s shit a girl I f-cked over gave me that. . It sits on my writing desk along with the book “Prayers for Healing”, by : Maggie Oman. I have an original painting of a girl standing by a mirror the colors and style remind me of Van Gogh. My couch is virtually in tatters I need a new one. I have some Frankincense its good for my soul* This place may be the foundation for my future you might call me a late bloomer. I’ve spent almost the last 20 years in mental institutions and group homes. I’ve done some volunteer work and got a letter from President Obama. I’ve written some poems a few appeared in Street Roots. I’m farfrom achieving my dreams or delusions but that’s okay. Its a one-day-at-a-time, moment-bymoment life, but god do I plan and plot; it’s my nature to do so. Speaking of nature, I think the whole planet should fight to save her. But what do I know I am just possibly the messiah. Time will tell, so Til redeem the time. , Sufficient unto the day, is the work to be done. Unbeknownst to me, are the wonder and joys to be experienced. So I guess I’ll drink tea, until the break of dawn, finish up my poem, and be going, going, gone. BY C H U C K D O D S O N "BRIAN LINDSTROM'S ALIEN BOY PACKS A HORRIFYING PUNCH: INTIMATE, TERRIBLE, & TRUE. - SHAWN LEVY, THE OREGONIAN “ALIEN BOY IS A TRIUMPH - AND AN EMOTIONAL BULLDOZER." - JOHN CHANDLER, PORTLAND MONTHLY http://www.alienboy.org/ ■ifflOBI A v a i la b le 3 /2 5 o n iT u n e s , A m a z o n In s t a n t , D V D , K M HfKMg good.local.fooj all 9am- 10t>m dailv
