Jam Sessions

Because we're going to die anyway

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Childhood.

1.

Jake finds a used condom

on the playground and throws

it in Ray’s face.

Ray is too fat to give chase

After he realizes it isn’t dead snakeskin.

2.

DJ likes Kathleen so

one day he gives her a wedgie so hard

her thong breaks and she goes home early.

That night, her mom finds out she wears thongs

and burns them in their trashcan.

3.

Mama sends Dante to the circus

with 25 cents so he can see the freaks.

Dante falls in love with the blue-mohawked man

playing an accordion on stilts so high

he knows he must be God.

4.

Cate, who they call baby still

even though she isn’t a baby anymore

pours a tin full of marbles down the stairs for the sake

of watching them go; for the sake

of picking them up from under the radiator after.

5.

Charlie doesn’t understand that when

David tells him my mom is in a coma

it isn’t a part of the game.

They’re playing James Bond, and Charlie

thinks if they get the Bad Guy, she’ll wake up. 

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Temporary

The ceramic plate felt like the garden section of Home Depot.

The only place mothers feel safe;

Meekly picking plastic pots of petunias

Their husbands wouldn’t notice right away.

On the plate, etched and glazed:

Jesus Loves you,

But I’m his Favorite.

Placed at the foot of the bed they defiled

On the wall her moans seeped through.

Sometimes, she hoped her moans would knock

The pushpin out,

Shatter how much more Jesus loved him.

How because of Him, she would never

Pick petunias

And bring them home.

How in spite of Jesus

She could lie and stare at the ceramic plate

While his toes curled

And the flowers on his windowsill

Starved. 

- Dev

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Green Light

Her look told me how she knew it was bad.

Calloused bare feet on the dusty floor

Shuffling as she wiped up the tables the regulars had just left.

The polish on the wood had gone before Daddy bought the place.

The faded green silk bandana holding back her mane had

Lost its polish too.

One of her hands cradled the sphere of her belly.

Outside, beyond the neon signs, the light turned green and you could hear

Tires fading.

Her lavish blue eyes saw beyond the chatter marks on the asphalt

To the babies lolling in the riverbed,

Dried since last June

When she hadn’t said no under the spot on the roof

Where rotting and fresh shingles met.

The setting sun through one dirty window was three strokes of white

Oil on the dark floor.

She watched the dust play in it while she washed dirty glasses

With a dirtier rag.

A door slamming broke the reverie.

Somehow you knew she had wanted to say never.

I watch her hands, we both unmoving

Wondering if the rain will come wash

Babies away. 

- Dev

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He’ll never let you down. That boy’s got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That’s important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.
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vicemag:

Koch: I wanted to get rid of New York’s graffiti problem, but I wasn’t in charge of the subways, the MTA was. I called the MTA into City Hall and told them they had to get rid of the graffiti. I presented them with a plan to do it: Kids were spray-painting train cars in the yards at night because there weren’t any fences. I told them, just put up a fence and put some dogs inside. They got scared, worried that the dogs would bite people, so I said, “OK, if you don’t want any chance of dogs biting people, get wolves.” That’s the problem with the new Liam Neeson movie, The Grey. There’s no recorded case of a wild wolf ever having bitten or attacked a single human being in North America.
I don’t believe that.Well, it’s true. The next day Clyde Haberman of the New York Times came to me and told me he’d checked my statement and that there are records of domesticated wolves biting humans. I said, “I know that! I’m not talking about a domesticated wolf. I’m talking about wild wolves. Let’s have wild wolves protect the trains. If the wild wolves become tame, replace them with more wild ones.”
So you recommended that the MTA fight graffiti with wild wolves?Yes. 
—Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has died at 88. We spoke with him in 2012.

vicemag:

Koch: I wanted to get rid of New York’s graffiti problem, but I wasn’t in charge of the subways, the MTA was. I called the MTA into City Hall and told them they had to get rid of the graffiti. I presented them with a plan to do it: Kids were spray-painting train cars in the yards at night because there weren’t any fences. I told them, just put up a fence and put some dogs inside. They got scared, worried that the dogs would bite people, so I said, “OK, if you don’t want any chance of dogs biting people, get wolves.” That’s the problem with the new Liam Neeson movie, The Grey. There’s no recorded case of a wild wolf ever having bitten or attacked a single human being in North America.

I don’t believe that.
Well, it’s true. The next day Clyde Haberman of the New York Times came to me and told me he’d checked my statement and that there are records of domesticated wolves biting humans. I said, “I know that! I’m not talking about a domesticated wolf. I’m talking about wild wolves. Let’s have wild wolves protect the trains. If the wild wolves become tame, replace them with more wild ones.”

So you recommended that the MTA fight graffiti with wild wolves?
Yes. 

—Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has died at 88. We spoke with him in 2012.

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