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Tony O'Neill |
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Tony O'Neill on Untitled Poem, 2000: “This poem is an early one, written sometime in 2000 when I was at the height of some drug-induced madness. I would often get very productive when I was injecting crystal meth, and start grand projects - a series of paintings (I found a bunch of canvases in a dumpster in Hollywood, and shoplifted a set of oil paints), a novel, poems, and a screenplay based on the life of Joe Meek (for that story, you can read not quite joe meek here – it’s the second story down). Of course, I never finished anything. This poem is one of the few to survive that I still like. I found it in a bloodstained notebook that somehow made it back from LA to London. I put it in my book, songs from the shooting gallery.”
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| 15 Jan 2010 |
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Poetry
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In Podcast and Chap-book
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Untitled Poem, 2000
Hollywood
You are a dirty whore
I love you
Lets get married
Lets get fucked up, lost,
Take me down the worst parts
Of Sunset
Lets score crack at Donuts Unlimited
Lets get bleeding tattoos
Of the Virgin Mary
Lets lose our accents
Lose Ourselves
Say goodbye to Dave:
Let him walk to Cambodia
In a coke induced freak-out-
Lets snort crystal with Marty
And his leather chaps
In the Spot Light
Lets laugh and love
And vomit and shit
Lets drink with the day laborers
In The Gold Room
And listen to heartbreaking
Spanish love songs
On the old Wurlitzer
Gargle whiskey and soda
At The Frolic Room
Until the barmaid throws us out
Then we can lay down on the sidewalk
With the cigarette butts
And the gum
And the old movie stars:
Just you
Me
Rita Hayworth
And the California
Moon
One of Tony’s favourite youtube videos: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Junkyard
Stand-out lyric: “There’s junk in honeys sack again!”
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