Dean Young
Dean Young
dad funny kitchen took wealthy
Wealthy playboys and flappers just weren't funny anymore, ... So (dad) got them married, and (Dagwood) was disowned by his millionaire daddy. When they got into the kitchen and started having kids, it took off like a rocket.
heart way pebbles
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
bird cages
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
want happy-endings cookbook
You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
mean errors mirrors
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.
song lying coats
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
sleep want pages
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
dream sleep writing
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
block believe writing
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
mean had-enough too-much
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.