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Tony on Park Avenue Motel Aria: “One thing I love about NYC is reading the gothic sounding accounts of violence in the newspapers. "Child stabbed multiple times, set alight in dumpster" - headlines like that. This poem was inspired by a murder in a sleazy motel called the Park Avenue Motel that happened a few years ago. A guy picked up a drunk girl on the street, took her back to the motel, and then in front of his girlfriend, he raped and murdered her. The girlfriend watched the whole thing, and helped to dispose of the body. Like everybody I guess I'm fascinated by human beings' capacity for cold blooded violence, and this poem was my way of wondering exactly what was going through people’s minds at the time.”
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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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Park Avenue Motel Aria
I told him
don’t be bringing
no bitches back here. But,
he don’t listen
don’t be fucking that
skinny bitch on this bed
don’t be playing me like that. But
he don’t listen
afterwards I check her purse
the shady fake ID says she’s 22
her real ID says 17. Shit,
I told that motherfucker
underage too, but
he don’t care
somebody got to that nigger
long before me
fucked him up good, too
that slow motion suicide
fuck the world shit
turns me to jelly
and shit, don’t he know it
he put the first nigger
who ever turned me out
into the ground; smiled
that little boy smile
and my ass was his
now he flashes
those puppy dog eyes again
and I am already driving
to Wal-Mart
against my better mothfuckin judgment
to get the bleach
and some garbage bags
One of Tony’s favourite youtube videos: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Born On The Bayou
Stand-out lyric: “My father said ‘son, don’t let the man get you / and do what he did to me’”
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damion's comments
Hey Tony, there's crime newspaper here in St. Louis called the Evening Whirl--that publishes these stories a lot. It's written in street language, and reads like a Donald Goines novel. It's one of the few newspapers that are still able to sell here. People are fascinated by the crazy things people can do--I'm one of them though. Interesting write.
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