Poetry from Lil Snott

NU-JAZZ PUNK BLUES

It’s easy to count your losses and blame yourself.

You quickly scramble for compensation..

Scolding from loved ones echo thru your mind…

IT’S TIME TO PAY THEM BACK [but how?] ….

© 1980 Bad Brains

You BUCK UP & become who they said you SHOULD be.

You abandon your instincts.

You eliminate what seemingly has not worked for you.

You throw away clothes, music, etc. – identifiers of your “failed” existence:

You delete your social media.

You change your area code.

You comb your hair to the side.

You join a gym.

You start tanning.

You start speaking the King’s English.

You approach women whom normally wouldn’t give you the time of day…

You hang out at Starbucks:

You APOLOGIZE.

Poetry from Lil Snott

_/\/\/\/boulder flatirons;
airplane visions,
literary dive bars,
book shop dust.

Bookman's Corner, Lakeview Chicago

>micheline murals on mission;
vans veer across van ness
up to haight where noel
strums upon his flatbed__


Bookman’s Corner Chicago

Poetry from Lil Snott

Springfield

Punk Rock, Fast and Pray

HAYES STREET VERSE

for Gwich’in.
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minority reality
reduction based
aside mountain croiX;
burn aside, road rail..
river mural
rush.
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