April 2012
1 post
Friday, April 20, Ursprung Collective’s work will appear on Dog Horn Publishing’s podcast, Dogcast 13, available at: http://www.doghornpublishing.com/wordpress/category/dogcast-central
March 2012
4 posts
Poetry Killed the Video Star
http://soundcloud.com/ursprung-collective/poetry-killed-the-video-star
They killed Cobain
when they made him a god.
He was a god,
but not because they said so.
He knew.
He had to die to be real.
Fugazi was the true
voice for a generation.
“Everything’s Fucked!”
they shouted, they screamed.
“Do it yourself,”
they told me while I watched MTV.
And the radio
was blabbering for...
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The Periphery
http://soundcloud.com/ursprung-collective/the-periphery
“Who starts dying… And when?”
I asked, screaming – Whoopy!
“Why didn’t Rocky have breasts?” my mother begged of me.
Her hip bones liquefied –
giving birth to our son.
He was a beautiful, bright star,
and his momma went down real slow.
Jason would be the real name for Saint Nick,
delivering all his presents on Friday the...
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White
http://soundcloud.com/ursprung-collective/white
My face is
so pale it’s white, like
a whale, as bright as
the underbelly
I saw last night.
Ahab ain’t got nothin’
on this motherfucker.
I’ll tear through
every wave, deeper
than that peg-leg bastard
was ever willing to go.
I’ll take everything on:
Death, hate, fear, the loves of
lives repressed by straight white lines,
lives...
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Where the Wild Things Grow
http://soundcloud.com/ursprung-collective/where-the-wild-things-grow
There’s a garden in the middle of the city
where we planted a tree outside my window.
I had poetry boiling in my soul,
I needed a shot of rock n roll:
A vampiric lover who ain’t afraid of the cross…
Honey, I’m the living dead. What’s suffering to be afraid of?
I think I’ll take you to where the wild things grow.
Come here,...
