It was such a beautiful lie

Why did it end

The Truth is painful and ugly

Why did you let me see it



All the truth in my life

is always what i hated

Keep telling me these beautiful lies

let me hide from my fantasies



cover the world with black roses

dark mysterious and beautiful

let me drown in the clouds

and breathe in your lies



make me believe you are

truthful by lying to my heart

let my body crave your… Continue

This blog contains selected dribblets of Boots Dorfman's own finestkind O-Negative. For the whole wretched story of his odds-bodkins life, order Boots' slender volume of verse, Existential Mad Dog Blues, the True Stories, Songs and Screeds of a Great American Loser by Boots Dorfman. It is available from PublishAmerica, but hey, it's still a pretty good book, so try it, you'll like it!

"Friends" is a word

as gentle as lovers holding hands,

as welcome as a gift on Christmas,

as inviting as flames in the fireplace ...

you warm my heart.



I'm glad you're mine.

So, in this Season of peace and love,

I reach out in gratitude and pray that

you have a wonderous Christmas and

Happy New Year.



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Image (c) 2006, Karla Dorman

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HISSISITY



... The sky puffed out in a hissy fit

of monumental ... h i s s i s i t y.

It chased its tail from one horizon

to the other and back again, bared

its teeth in wind and rain ... never heard

her growl like that - sounded like thunder.

Lightning sparked from her eyes as she tore

around the room - the sweet… Continue

Image (c) Karla Dorman



IT DOES SOMETHING TO YOU



Living through disaster

bumps the impossible

a little bit closer.

It does something to you;

brings the alligator

so near it embraces

you in claustrophobic

teeth that won't. Let. Go, the

next time a storm comes near.

Fear changes you, somehow ...

it makes you face things you

don't want to think about:

like your mortality.



(c) 2007,…

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