subway whore

Keith Haring

subway spray overlay
urban man crush
on rush hour train

each breath
a lovers kiss,
radiant baby
watch
over
me,
apeshit
batshit,
anal introspection
warm lunch sandwich
slick lettuce curled,

crack is wack,
                                human heart
with happiness in IV

rhythm
                   beat,
circles on the stars
city canvas
sprawled over me
protection to the end,
for as i ride
and rattle can
angels fly

 

 

if you can donate to the Keith Haring Foundation for AIDS related illness http://www.haring.com

Diego Rivera – Carnival Of Mexican Life Dictatorship (1936)

Diego Rivera

also follow this link for a great short documentary and further information of Diego Rivera

http://www.biography.com/people/diego-rivera-9459446

12 Years A Slave – Solomon Northup (free download)

On http://www.archive.org there is the download for an early version of 12 Years a Slave in both epub and kindle format, a fascinating book that has been illustrated by Steve McQueens film that will do well at the Oscars, so here we go the link for the book

https://archive.org/details/twelveyearsasla01nortgoog

puppets very bold

sidewalk city flesh
tattooed by footsteps, rain
and spat out gum,
the night seemed so small
it could be contained in a can,
as walking
with hands held as consideration
more than love,
beneath our feet
the city, this beast
harbored many grudges
that seeded into nature
love affairs
side alley muggings
and falling down drunk,
when we found a moment
of thought connecting,
we spoke,
our arrangement was one
created from physical neglect
and no love or lingering passion
would occur,
yet we parted with difficulty
returning to the oblique swathe
of our normal lives,
brought a fear
neither of us could confront
yet truth would not let us
concede to the other

new york at night – vivienne gucwa

 

 

Tsaurah Litzky Reads from “Flasher” (adult content )

United Nations Poetry for Peace Competition 2011

Until

Time paused
a moment imploded,
the shuddering tremor,
rippled in dramatic light
silence came with pain,
fallen boughs
new sown seeds,
growth blemished in bark
reaching skyward
with gentle  leaves,
the tree had not forgotten
yet learned from it's birth
never to touch
that light
or feel that moment
again.

Kyochikuto/Oleander

from chugoku to the ota
nothing remained
upon the debris strewn
red earth,
in the silence
that  came with time,
shoots with elliptic leaves
to five bright petals,
vivid signal that,
survival is the future
that through resilience
we find a peace
and learn that for
no other reason
it should never
happen again.


With these two poems i came third out of 741 poets worldwide and was presented with a gift from the Japanese government and they where read out at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York by the Japanese Ambassador which you can watch here http://www.un.org/disarmament/special/meetings/dis_week/ the poems revolve around the Hibakusha survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the poems are also going into a book in New York

Larry Cohen – The Worst

The Worst from Larry Cohen on Vimeo.

Emile de Antonio Painters Painting