west houston in the rearview mirror

     "Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

      -walt whitman

and happy birthday mr whitman.

31 may 2007:
i will be here again.
likely at this very desk.
likely writing an appraisal report.
likely very soon.

it will be different however.

not an

      em   ploy     eeeeeeeeeeeeee

contractor boy. brickwall boy.

memories. many many memories. and yes, they do sort of smell like gasoline david.
got a light?

ssssshhhhhhhh.
liiiiisssstttteeeennnnn
you hear them.

me thinks i hear angels singing...

if i could write like that, i would:
i may be in love here.

well ok, a wee bit smitten. with nick flynn.
he's like a writer guy, for real.
though not a bad looking guy. it's his soul. his pen.
his goddamn unflinching honesty.

(note use of apostrophes in recent posts, progress... not perfection)

so yea, nick flynn.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (im a thief, not a jerk)
Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer and poet. He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston. It was there at age 27 that he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time. Nick Flynn earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.

Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry: Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips. His poem, "Bag of Mice", won the "Discovery"/The Nation Award in 1999 leading to the publication of his first book of poems, Some Ether. His first book of poems also won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. "Bag of Mice" deals with his mother's suicide. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

Most recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his tumultuous early life and relationship with his father. It won the 2004 Pen/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir.

He now teaches at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program*. He has been dating actress Lili Taylor since 2004.

yo!   do yourselves a cultural service, and check out his stuff here. here. here. oh, and here.

and check out a poem of his here.

*The University of Houston Creative Writing Program is a graduate fiction and poetry program located in Houston, Texas. It was rated second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its first annual ranking of writing programs in 1997. The Creative Writing Program offers a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing and an MFA in English: Creative Writing. The Creative Writing Program at The University of Houston was founded by the writer Donald Barthelme.

mr flynn, houston tx 2005

for you.
people.
i do it all for you.

ok ok

some    of   it.

your welcome.
brickwallboy.