“Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.” BlackBeatsChestsMourn Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.” PoliticalBlackDarkPowerfulMissingBeatsMadCollectionsShockPoeticVersesProvenOutrageBlastTroublesomeSwitchingBardsWhimsyPitch BlackAmputees Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson
“I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.” InspirationalFirstsStillsRememberYoungBlackWrittenBeatsEvidenceGreenRhythmImpulsePolicemenExplodingVehement Author:Dylan Thomas
“I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.” ThinkingMenTryingI CanHomeMovingEnergyBlackSonBeatsDrawsCloudsStormMy SonLightningRollingBlack Clouds Author:Carlos Condit
“I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.” ThinkingWorldShowsKidsCoursesCausesBlackCivilizationAuthorityBenefitsBeatsWeakVietnamPajamas Author:Stephen King