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editor@mainstreetrag.com <editor@mainstreetrag.com>Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 5:06 PM

To: Eric Helms <helmseric8@gmail.com>

Eric,

 

I figured I’d be hearing from you eventually. No, I did not look forward to it having dealt with manic depressives on numerous occasions in the past. I don’t know if that’s your issue and (maybe) running around naked in the mountains will garner a few previously unknown readers, but my concern is whether you can hold it together long enough to get your book out. I don’t want to put my time into it and have you disappear down some rabbit hole. I’ve already lost a week of my life I will never get back due to the Pinesong debacle.

 

No, we would not still be on schedule for this fall. I have accepted easily 40 manuscripts since you went off the rails and am now scheduling for 2020.

 

As for sending the manuscript, I can’t do anything with a PDF, so just send a standard WORD file. The Table of Contents should have the titles in the order in which they appear, but no tabs or spacing of any kind on either side and no page numbers—since they will inevitably be wrong. Just a list of poem titles.

 

You can propose art for the cover, but I’m the final word on that.

 

Scott

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely than Death’s termless shade
and Zephyros’ most balmy gust: on the dark
page of gloom, it’s no misfortune to walk–

as with two Kangaroo Hops, I make up
the distance of Central Park. North-bound to
Harlem, which is Hell when Heaven it’s not.
Armstrong wanted to say “That’s one small step

for a man”, but the “a”, not audible, is lost 
in transmission, captured by aliens–
those punk reptilians and greys that go BOO!–

when the Military Industrial Complex goes Boom!–
dressing up as Mickey and Minnie Mouse
to abduct Marilyn Monroe at the White House

Thou art more lovely than in God we Trust.

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Hello,

If you are coming to Japan this summer or autumn,

we organize some event for Radiohead fans.

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1st - 31st July 2019

Radiohead Photo Exhibition.

"From The Front Row"

all photos I took at Radiohead concert are exhibited at the cafe called CAFE: MONOCHROME.

19th July 2019. at Eggman Shibuya Tokyo.

CAFE: MONOCHROME FES 2019 feat. Radiohead Night.

we Radiohead Night team will be featured at the event,

OAS- Radiohead Tribute band will play at the event.

DJ VJ are also play mostly Thom, Radiohead etc..

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5th Oct 2019

RADIOHEAD NIGHT at Space Odd.

the special event for Radiohead fans.

OAS will have 2 hours show and DJ, VJs..

Radiohead/Thom Yorke's official merch will be sold under official license.etc etc etc...

Please contact me if you interest.

thank you.

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ANIMA

11011037859?profile=originalANIMA, a new record by me. 27 June. https://anima.technology

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01 “TRAFFIC”

02 “LAST I HEARD (…HE WAS CIRCLING THE DRAIN)”

03 “TWIST”

04 “DAWN CHORUS”

05 “I AM A VERY RUDE PERSON”

06 “NOT THE NEWS”

07 “THE AXE”

08 “IMPOSSIBLE KNOTS”

09 “RUNWAYAWAY”

10 “(LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU FOR COMING)” (vinyl-only bonus track)

 

ANIMA is out 6/27. Pre-order it here as a CD, standard double vinyl, or a deluxe double vinyl book with lots of extras such as “A BEAUTIFUL HARDBACK BOOK CONTAINING BOTH THE LYRICS AND MANY STRANGE DRAWINGS DONE IN PENCIL BY STANLEY DONWOOD & DR TCHOCK.”

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ANIMA, also a one-reeler by Paul Thomas Anderson & me. 27 June.

Thom Yorke's new album comes with a Netflix short film

 

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Your Title Here

JUNE 17, 2019

Your Title Here

How do we get off the eye-glazed treadmill 
of decay? In lieu of titty-showers and ta-
rantula breath, keep the change you filthy

But I won’t go there. The nosebleed carriage
of the Wonder Wheel. At Midnight it dawns.
Bring a pumpkin that we’ll drop & watch smash

on one of those Russian spooks who go hunting 
for sea-turtles on Brighton Beach. How about 
that? Trained beasts without harness buckles

the planet has thus far borne under force 
of glaciers with no possibility of sound.
The ruin of a titanic race. Once long shrunk.

From this height? No life through a mirror.
Limp, even brief arctic flowers dwindle– 
from our bare dreams, trapped abruptions

on growths, ulcers, broken-heart disease, vari-
cose veins and other malignant deficiencies.
Inenarrable Indian sign n syn hex. hoodoo,

whammy, JINX to INDICATE. Point. Hint. Imply.
Suggest; announce, bespeak the telltale ink
that, empyreal, ought to oust, bereave; divest the

particle n syn atom. crumb. doit. dram. drop.
Minim and mittal those rare anticline striations,
so matchless-ly intense. 7-billion human beings

each and every day wipe their ass. So precious
is sanity that sanitation mustn’t dare to dream 
or case itself as more or less value. The glory.

The concrete. Jungle. Fear. Death’s climax
was a dream of God, so enchanted one cannot
avoid or dilute. I digress. Again. Disheartened

as the 2003 film of vicious punk rock unwraps 
impatiently. A Mr5. Doubtfire plot!–just play along,
please. Another Elvis Presley hit. Sound of sawbucks

from the violin holders on the never-before-seen 
bench. Disheartened, just play along. Please?
Like your Spaghetti dish was served with wasabi.

And when you’re finished, don’t forget to exclaim,
Taste just like a slice of history of the One-eyed
Norse god; Never-before-seen at a dinner party.

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Sonnet in which Angels Do Not Age, Neither Do Clouds

A folk tale of rook-pecked corpses and rusty bicycles
For which the pink elastic strings of the fable’s bikini
Has been washed too many times Like laying 
A flaming palm branch of donkey shit at your door

After S– stood you up twice for coffee and struck
That match which lit your brain afire Again AMOK
In a clay hole surrounded by mortar rounds and 
two broken vending machines with the image of POTUS

45 We’re in the Mental Block of the Hospital where
Everything’s REAL and prepped for the Furnace 
With a bottle of opiates and 22 ½ gray pairs of socks

Just don’t play the role of the psycho (but claim your 
Grandmother’s dementia) when the male nurse’s finger
Turns into a blade to get rid of humpty dumpty & your vertigo

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The Character in a Soap Opera Who Excited My Sympathy

The whole Island of Italy had set 
out to write me poems of tragedy 
& reversals of fortune, not one which 
was worth reading in the lowest wreckage 
or highest reach of my despondency.

I stomped on my golden cape and tore off 
my salt-rusted crown, and ludicrously 
wept into the Caspian Sea, praying 
for an unfathomable act of cruel,
natural disaster that the gods might

deliver. Surely, my roughshod partition 
required, had had to come with some type
of contract for me to shoehorn or, atleast, 
scribble upon in this time of ruin,

but nay, nay!– … only this unfortunate for-
tune broken from the nautilus shell of a cookie: 
Concerning how much your rucksack shall weigh, measure the weight of 
A camel dragging a sandcastle of bricks by his tail, into the world beneath.

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