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“I look at the world like frost in a windowpane, confused, unseeing, and I wait for a solution which will never come. I see the world through eyes glazed over, searching for relief from the ungodly pain. Fuck the stigma. I just want normalcy.”

Pain Poetry Fear Despair Emotions Mental Health Confusion Stigma Normalcy

Book:Cells

Source: Cells

“shower time, steam rising, going on a caffeine binge – it’s not the juice that juices me, it’s that taste and the rock and roll blaring evil and gorgeous in the morning darkness”

Life Inspirational Inspiration Poetry Motivation Life Philosophy Caffeine

Book:Hang Gliding on X

Source: Hang Gliding on X

“i might go see London After Midnight at Coven 13 tonight i might sit at home and write lousy poems i might play with my cat and then go trick people to death it’s a freeze frame happenstance reality of sickness”

Poetry Madness Halloween Warped Reality

Book:Shadows Before the Maiming

Source: Shadows Before the Maiming

“They closed the transient 5th Avenue Motel and now where will they go? They came from all over to stay for a night or a month or whatever they could afford, however they can afford it – and now it’s gone, broken windows boarded up, chain link fence surrounding it like it’s a dog with scurvy. The transient hotel drained pale, pissing in an empty ashtray.”

Poetry Compassion Homelessness Tennessee Knoxville

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“Winter, and You are the only Possibilities in this World. Paper, pen, Teeth, bones, and skin, The future is now. How will you make This work, snowflakes Against the window, Every ounce of pain Like blood on my lips.”

Love Pain Poetry

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“We share this moment not through touch but our eyes, yours brilliant, shining, willing, wanting to know feel the pain, understand, mine dead to the world, a bleak history of empty files”

Pain Poetry Hope Future Bleak Emotion Connections

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“as i said her nostrils flared like a white lion, i blinked and she was gone. what one imagines. i dream moldy words. at times she yawned, as i said that, and her nostrils flared most beautifully.”

Poetry Beauty Surrealism

Book:Distant Visions, Again and Again

Source: Distant Visions, Again and Again

“I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.”

Death Poetry Fear Horror Solitude Love Quote Aloneness

Book:Shadows Before the Maiming

Source: Shadows Before the Maiming

“the words on the paper im readin are blarin out at me loud an angrylike tellin me there's no end to the recession theres no jobs theres no peace theres no hope man an people wonder why i do what i do? an bums are bummin lights from me and babies are squintin up at me an my coffee is rupturing my gut bitterlike an i guess the world is kinda like the coffee sometimes – ill be suffering thru both tomorrow.”

Poetry Poor Working Class Beat Recession Beat Poetry Bums

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“Things remained in a type of stasis for the next couple of days, but I was bored. I wished I had a favorite Bukowski with me to read, either Women or Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he’d been cool enough to sign for me once when I’d been over at his pad in San Pedro. I missed him. Still couldn’t believe he was gone.”

Poetry Books Reflection Bukowski Charles Bukowski Autograph

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“feeling the fear hysteria in mass murder town 83-year-old woman shot thru eye convenience clerk nothing taken says it’s pointless junked out killer on lam killing for art’s sake THIS is my art judge me now.”

Art Poetry Murder Nihilism Nra Social Criticism Mass Murder

Book:Big Head Press Broadside Poem Collection

Source: Big Head Press Broadside Poem Collection

“Which is worse? The horror of waking up alone or the horror of waking up next to someone else?”

Life Poetry Horror Terror Horror Poetry Existential Dilemma

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“You’re like a book I hate to read, a story I want to skip through to the end. You take my soul and blow me straight into hell. I’m high on wigged out poems, short shorts that don’t stop. Am I dead? I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S REAL! What about you?”

Poetry Horror Dead Hate Quotes Reality Check Horror Poetry

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“normalcy? an answer to a crossword puzzle question my body bears the strain of a suicide wannabe the look in my eye turns people away humanity frightens so easily that the words bubble to the top of the lobotomized”

Poetry Fear Horror Normalcy Horror Poetry Dead Souls

Book:The Napalmed Soul

Source: The Napalmed Soul

“she told me that a friend of hers had heard of me and exclaimed “he’s disturbing to read.” now i like that – “disturbing to read: -- like popping pills or pushing the plunger down, like big knives and rusty razors. i’m fucking disturbing – let me disturb you too”

Poetry Disturbing Books Literary Reputation

Author:Scott C. Holstad

“i thought to myself well if there's a sucker out there it may as well be me for believing this jerk would stay in business if he paid all his writers like he was going to pay me. i mean he must not have even realized that poetry doesn't sell!”

Poetry Writers Naive Royalties

Book:Dancing with the Lights Out

Source: Dancing with the Lights Out

“i often wonder at what point my thoughts cease to be my reality and simply merge with my dreams to become my fiction, my life.”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Poetry Quotes Knowledge Dreams Thoughts Meaning Of Life

Book:Distant Visions, Again and Again

Source: Distant Visions, Again and Again

“they are a little more solid even in the exquisite nakedness of their existence and they glory in their reality and read music and dance poetry on the sidewalks and in the lavatories of bombed out buildings. we take their words and cup them in our hands and we take their lips and crush them to ourselves and dream the dreams and think of sands and faraway places and wish for death and pray they see IT soon.”

Love Inspiration Inspirational Quotes Poetry Life Quotes Dreams Nostalgia Meaning Philosophy Of Life Happiness Quotes

Book:Industrial Madness

Source: Industrial Madness

“a beautiful girl spoke to me today thru little honey’d whispers dreaming icicles streams of words mouth moving saying much in little tones traveling passionately into distant lands far off hopes stranger’s arms a hoped-for death told her secret.”

Poetry Dreams Future Connection With People

Book:Grungy Ass Swaying

Source: Grungy Ass Swaying

“she dreams dreams wrapped in unknown skins. sweat scented covers are tossed aside in her urgency. she dreams recklessly of reckless abandonment in a dark, dank world.”

Poetry Dreams Isolation Abandonment Meaninglessness

Book:Shadows Before the Maiming

Source: Shadows Before the Maiming

“I see things differently. Rocks look suspicious to me as do certain hubcaps. Paranoia seeps through my pores, it’s just a part of me. Truthfully, I don’t know what to say anymore. My body is a piece of art; I don’t care about external scars, it’s the internal ones I live with and Satan dances towards me.”

Poetry Horror Satan Apathy Paranoia Illusions Horror Poetry Emotional Scars

Book:Shadows Before the Maiming

Source: Shadows Before the Maiming

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