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What The Street Remembers (16)
How thick
Ruuumm
Pttah pttah
What's that?
*
Truman Capote fumbled in his pockets.
*
Blanga-baa
Grrd-grrd
P-twhh
Give is it here man
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Jack Dunphy blotted his spittle.
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Sarah
Oh meanie
You told me to paint
I'm sorry
What The Street Remembers (19)
What's wrong with me?
Or-eey-or-oh
It was so good
Come on John
Plick-plick-plick
*
Allen Ginsberg wailed an ‘om’.
*
Puchhh
Pa-pa-chakk
Blockkk
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Neal Cassady queries the address.
*
She's going there
Who?
Someone to play the witch
Yeah
About the Author: The South Bank Centre in London recorded Christopher Barnes' poem "The Holiday I Never Had"; he can be heard reading it on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18456. In August 2007 he made a film called "A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot" for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem.
