Tag Archives: BEAT

OPTIMIST at the OPTOMETRIST

Posted on December 7, 2025 by edenbray

optimist at the optometrist .. . optimist at the optometrist 1, 000 illuminated eyes waiting to decide Buddy Holly brides endless eyebrows rising space-pod aliens disguise urban cowboys overheard in private conversations about their ears and eyes Marianna’s blackened eaux … Continue reading →

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ALCOHOL and IRONY .. .

Posted on August 23, 2025 by edenbray

alcohol & irony .. . ode to a bum on the street .. . i resort to alcohol what do you do to cope with atrocity moribund, culture shame i resort to alcohol what is your poison that you would … Continue reading →

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STEINBECK LANE .. .

Posted on January 26, 2025 by edenbray

Steinbeck Lane .. . .. Where I grew up in gunner’s shale   shoes polished, faces paper pale the television flickered bread was stale   we put a brave face on and smiled green the carpet spread about us   … Continue reading →

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AT HOME WITH JOHN MARTIN .. .

Posted on December 18, 2024 by edenbray

at home with John Martin .. . . . We wrung the neck of life slashed the face off it i stumbled around in the dark reached out my hands found sheafs of crumpled paper by a match I read … Continue reading →

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beat poetry for the masses .. .

Posted on November 29, 2024 by edenbray

beat poetry for the masses .. . .. . .. . streams of thought running through   a mountain of kinetic energy I look for bravery in the writers I read   bravery that unties bonds of slavery slavery to … Continue reading →

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BEAT

Posted on September 19, 2023 by edenbray

beat .. . beat, plageurism while writing a sonnet Sometimes I think I came too late to writing I should have come first of all to listen is to spell to see to speak to tell all, a rat-fink when … Continue reading →

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da VINCI’S FINGER .. .

Posted on August 28, 2023 by edenbray

da Vinci’s finger .. . alcohol and the elite – a heady mix! I pick up another bottle summoned up the elitist the amateur has gone still hiding in her tree is this your chosen brand can I add mine … Continue reading →

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BEATNIK SALAD DRESSING .. .

Posted on June 11, 2023 by edenbray

beatnik salad dressing .. . .. upon the copulation this vast landscape of one generation with another an age of explosions around the world victims victims cold and fragile a violence bedraggled half-baked extravagance rise of the extremists curtailed death … Continue reading →

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NAKED AND UNASHAMED .. .

Posted on November 10, 2021 by edenbray

Naked and Unashamed .. . I run free my pieces jangling   run to the crashing sea I run shouting unashamed   my arms vainly embracing the moon   the wind grazing my flesh I run still wondering   in … Continue reading →

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OH! AND OH AGAIN!

Posted on August 2, 2021 by edenbray

Oh! and Oh again! I had been instructed under pain of a certain kind of  punishment to ingratiate my humanness, write boldly within a stream of consciousness maybe a modicum of winsomeness, fuck-fuck candydaddy humour and the certainty of truthfulness, … Continue reading →

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