Luck Is For Shallow Men- A Short Play by Sterling Arthur Leva
Jan24
Tag Archives: heartbreak
Jan20
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: Pick-Up Line-Break
Jun16
Welcome (Back) To The Grotesquerade
It’s a thin borderline
that separates me
(and me)
from a full-blown personality disorder.
Put Casanova
(or is it Nasa Cova now?)
back in a coma—
he’s awoken from his limp-dicked slumber
and he’s eyeing escorts
and flirting with friendlies
like a romantic in retrograde.
But at least he brought flowers,
right?
Take Cadillac de Bergerac’s
binoculars away—
he’s peeping on the ribs again
and what’s worse
has the audacity to refer
to women
as ribs
during his Evening treetop misadventures.
Just steal his fucking valve stems
and be done with it,
man.
But Johnny Warpath won’t make
like a tree at all.
Turns out he doesn’t only come out
when I drink my gin.
No—
he ain’t Dr. Jimmy, man.
He ain’t Mr. Hyde neither
and he ain’t hiding no more.
May21
Nostalgia Is, Essentially, Temporal Epilepsy
I don’t have a checkered past—
It’s more polkadot
or pinstripe
or paisley
even.
Some of it I’ll never forget, but more of it I’ll never remember.
And thank heavens for that:
I’ve read the police blotters I’ve made cameos in
and if I can take their word for it
then I’d just rather leave certain things blotted, please.
How do I look on paper?
Well, that all depends on the paper.
(College transcripts and rap sheets, unfortunately, are two entirely different kinds of coverage.)
One of my finest moments:
Being asked by a cop what I was on probation for
and
without wasting any time
replying
“Bad grades”
and smirking in his stupid fucking pig face
because it was true
and I thought myself
oh so clever.
The moral of the story?
Hubris gets you handcuffs
and my answer to the same question today
would be very different, indeed.
Dec31
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: The Difference Between You And Me
Dec18
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: The Hopeless Hopings of a Fanciful Delusionist
Dec10
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: An Explanation
Dec2
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: Same
Nov25
Sailor Jerry Rum Label Love Missives: Doctor’s Orders
Nov14
