Archive for March 14th, 2010
The Collector
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, collage, dark, love, tragedy
The Collector
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this day as I journey
I come upon a stranger
standing by the road looking sad
heavy box held in his arms
clutched close to his breast
he stares into my eyes expressionless
his gaze stops me still
fixes me in place
his face is tired and drawn
etched in withered worry
when at last I move
I draw close enough to see
this sullen man [...]
The Book(s)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, music, prose
Two books that changed everything for me — “On The Road” by Jack Kerouac,
and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe.
I was a disenchanted-college-student-rock-musician and had just been awakened by the ‘67 Summer of Love, when I came upon both of these books in the Spring of 1968 in a bookstore in [...]
