My Opera is closing 3rd of March

the f u dance

the disastrous return of sorry_e_e

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so i add new stuff as comments
sorry about the sheer volume

but
i miss the early days of lowbrow dot com
when all the mangled masses
incestusously intermingled
without fear of reprise
in the womb of
anonymity
alas

much like my old plow
once all bright and smelling new
now more rust than iron
and man what a stench

i guess
we all wind up
taking time poorly


heres more of
that much maligned
blah blah blah
from my side of the fence

cheers

sorry

ps for those who need a fix
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lowbrow.com
archived brow moments
get out




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sorry_e_elumbar35 Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:27:00 AM

so hear goes

fu dance threeelevenohnine

the small boy spit his pills at the nurse
i ll call your mom
the threat she hurled
he said she can t catch me and
neither can you
flipped her the bird
and flew by me in a blur


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Friday, March 13, 2009 12:34:15 AM

two left feet threetwelveohnine

so
tread across the frozen drive to rush to work to
work and work
slip and fall on marchs ice
and crack my nut until i taste that cold
zinc metal taste
i wonder if acquired brain injury
will get me out of that training
or an extra cuppa joe at dunkins
most likely
just more anger at the asshole
doing 35 infront of me
toot toot
hello
angry dainbramaged road rager crawling up your ass

sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:00:26 AM

fu four oh one

so hes ten and the mom
unceremoniously burdening him
claims him as villain
with a tongue sharpened by hatred and abandonment
she drones on and on of the evils
portrayed by this frail hand
by these sparked eyes
by this embattled mind

not a hand up to the curb
does she hold
not a kind word
its ok its ok mommys here
these are never spoken
just a threat to leave him by the dumpster
if her next boyfriend becomes
upset by him
rather than intoxicated with her
plastic breasts

he gobbles down the seroquel readily
preferring it to the fickled twists
of her self absorption
she looks at her cleavage for a moment
and he runs
and runs
and does not return

i see him standing dirty scared
waiting for the dad he located
a truck pulls up
southern cross in the window
beer cans rattle in the bed

his mom never missed him for a minute
his three best friends miss him every day
i cant help think if the choice is frying pan or fire
best keep moving to not get burned

sorry



sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:07:32 AM

karma fu

she explains to me the fica breakdown and
the reason my check was short this week
i want to grab it from her
as there is makers mark due on its conversion
she lies and lies and i know but
play along cos she hasnt handed
the bleeding check to me yet

blah blah blah

then a twisted face
about to sneeze
her head reels back
and explodes with fury
her hand to face
she such a lady
dribbles broken blood vessels
crimson phlegm
down a dress that cost more
than the check she dangles in front of me

laughing at these times only angers the gods of yin and yang


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:12:58 AM

payback

dumped that saving cup of
scalding ethiopian java
right on my nutsack
and knew
full well
it was because i called
sister williamanna
hotdoglegs
in second grade

the penguins have
a direct line
and are as patient as saints
despite the more popular
reputation


sorry
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sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:00:38 PM

abhorring the vacuum

in the silence that causes
ears to hum
making it up
abhorring the vacuum
in the dark that lies
cool and thick
it might not let me move
the ache of not moving fills me
some panic
between the slipping of smooth
leather shoes
on wet icy pavement
and
the crash that ruins your knee


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:01:21 PM

winner

the carstop in southie
used to have a waitress in her sixties
that didnt wear her dentures
and always gave you shots of clear tequilla
every time you tipped her
the stuff was horrid

now its a brass and fern bar
where plastic brad meets polly ethylene
for a californian chardonnay
before they have multiply protected sex
in his apartment with the air purifier

i liked it better when the old geezers
would take bets at two pm
on how many minutes
into the show it would be before
the beaver fucked up
and wally would say
gee i dont know beev

there was a winner everytime


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:03:29 PM

beet red

a waiter in training
pulls the cork on a celebratory bottle
of cheap wine
pop
her hand flys back
and slaps
a beet red bloated jackass
across his belittling mouth
i cough my makersmark
through my nose


sorryninenineeighteight

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:05:13 PM

drunken dentist

but theyre so dirty and look
at the way they are dressed
like their mothers let them go out like that
said she in horror
at the
neopunkseventiesthrowbackrobzombawannabees
the same person who thought that
an ozonedepleting amount of hairspray and
blueglitter eyeshadow were musthaves if you
wanted to party back in the day when such things
were horridly acceptable
when the hell did you get old
said i
she shot me a look
oops
drunkendentist strikes a nerve


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:06:21 PM

bad sex

i still cant believe that
some women think that plastic bags
of toxic goo that inflate
their godgiven breasts to sad caricatures
will find them
self respect and true love
rather than
bad sex
and a greater understanding
of how truly sick they are
of themselves


sorry
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sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:08:37 PM

turkey call

i was dying for a drink
and stopped in a little toothless old man bar
somewhere on the outskirts of syracuse
i walked in and managed
to get a shot of rot gut and
a sixteen ounce pabst for a buck and a half
classy joint
after about a half an hour
the local construction workers
showed up looking to beat on
the only guy in the bar they didnt recognize
aka me
i bought the whole place a round
for fifteen bucks
and got into a turkey calling contest
with three of them

never turkey called in my life

amazing what you can do
when facial rearrangement is on the line


sorry nineteeneigthythree

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:09:50 PM

what the fuck geoff

couldnt believe i saw him
along time had passed and
he was up the street from me
so i started walking toward him
he seemed to be doing really well
clean and well kempt
and much like i had seen him after his
long ass nasty demon wrangling
struggle back

geoff whats going on you look great
i trailed off
he looked up and stared into my eyes
and i knew the shit had hit the fan
in a major major way
i been better says he
the two goons standing next to him
grab his arms and hustle him into the
solomon psychiatric hosptial i just passed

geoff you hafta cut that shit out


sorry ninteenninetyone

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:11:27 PM

cameltime

a compromising tryst begins the contortion
a breathy smile sighed in high pitch
sends the first wave
and swim swim as you may shore lost
tis the flux twixt drought and drowned
that is loved
not the kiss ed lip
not the deepened eye
every camel hates to wait
every swimmer fears to tread
the constant sense of means without an end
i hold her hair in gripless hand
waved out to the ocean
to be dry buried in sand

sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:12:45 PM

drink up fatboy

so fatboy
the secretaires and the accountants and i
are out standing along the building
having a smokers break

fatboys got the shakes from
too much boozing the night before
i believe it was long island ice teas

he starts a tirade
and in the midst of it a pigeon
deposits its droppings into his coffee cup
he pulls a pregnant pause
and is about to breathe
new life into his tirade
when he starts to motion for
a sip of joe
 
i watched everyone there watch him
as he was about to sip the cup
everyone had seen the
dropping
everyone knew he was about to drink
the excrement of the winged rat
 
i stopped him
but i sure as hell wont turn my back on
that crew
again


sorry ninteenninetythree

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:14:24 PM

smells like like victory

we thought the smell was from
the piles of dog crap that
lined the streets in southie
the sea mammal then recalled the bacon
in the bottom of the fugly fridge
that had been defunct for a week

ok you grab the fridge door
and open the crisper i ll grab the bacon
with these tongs and chuck the whole mess
into toy hell

launch

the decaying plastic ruptured
spraying a bileous green plasma
all over the broken toys in the lot next door

it was victory

but victory has its odor

sorry ninenineeighteight
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sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:15:23 PM

blaze

what the hell do you think you are doing
she screamed at them
oh ya know shooting junk and beating up nuns
said he without missing a beat
mike blew a snot he laughed so hard
they both were screwed now
but the blaze of glory
ah the blaze


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:17:04 PM

diane

how to make a jaw drop oneohone
so a rather attractive woman
walks up to a particularly
handsome married friend of mine in a bar
he gets pissed when
he waves his wedding ring
in horny women who want to pick him ups
faces and they continue regardless
its offensive says he

my name is
insert name
whats yours
is what the conversation starts as

he replies
diane

diane says she incredulously

yeh i used to be a woman
and changed my sex but not my name

jaw drops

end of pickup


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:18:18 PM

hot pavement

i muttered something in disgust
as i pulled up to the bar
to wait for some
quoteworkfriendsendquote
in hopkington ma

husserl
says the tender a youngish dood
huh says i
existential phenomenology says he

ok so im freaked not only
to be suddenly chatting about
my favorite branch of philosoph
but to a phd whos a tender
in this toothless old mans pub

a crusty at the end finally speaks up as
we start a gig about situational ethics

we can shut the kid up if you want says he

damn
the sheer velocity of a soft newborns face
on the hot pavement of the banal
once again shocks me

burbon please


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:19:16 PM


hell toupee

i love it when a guy in a suit
whos ass has gotten shiney
cos the polyester has melted
under the pressure of inactivity
tells you
in his bad toupee
that you should get a hair cut
and a real job



sorry ninenineeighteight
before the band

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:04:43 AM

cavefolk

floating around in space and
insignificance

should

make us understand that that
we have better things to do
than bash each other

but

the thing that kills me is we
are willing to bash each
other over

religion

jeez lawheez

we really havent wandered
too far from the caves have we


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:05:18 AM

hatchet

he said
i just hafta bury the hatchet and move on

and this strong image
like the kind the people with esp have
in cheezy seventies programs about
clairvoyants that help cops find serial killers
suddenly pops into my head

her body in her bed
next to an unsent dear john letter
with little hearts as the dots of i s
a small axe cleaving her cranium
and thick coagulating blood
every
fucking
where

i shudder

you re a better man to let it go i say

even i can smell the fear in my voice


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:06:40 AM

elephants

he looks up at the ceiling
and the plaster chips fall into his face
the rotund girls upstairs
have the disco blasting
elephants
he screams at the ceiling
elephants

he dated two of them


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:07:12 AM

da greeks

quote
who told the fuckin greeks
they could make pizza
you dont see some fucking guy
name anthony cranking out gyros
now do ya
this pizza sucks
endquote

da greek pizza place
in bridgeton maine


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08:14 AM

better liars

it seems to me that people
especially some of the fuckers on tv
should learn about
subconscious physical cues and
what they tell everyone else in the world
the stutt uh stuttering
the hand on the face
the eye gaze to the left
etc
it might not make them better people
but it would make them better liars


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:09:10 AM

bastard

the wind rips down d street
and yanks all the storm windows
off our little southie three family from hell
i look out the window
and two old women are
clinging to the side of the building
the broken glass has cut
their stockings and nicked their legs
i tear ass down to get them away
and bolt around the corner
forgetting i m wearing only socks
fucking landlords gonna pay
for the stitches
or i m helping these old ladies
sue the dental work off the bastard



sorry nineninenineoh

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:10:40 AM

fishbowl

ok so i ll explain it again
she left you because
she couldnt bear to break
your frekking heart
when it came time for you to grow up
and realize that people are human
and not the
wonderwomen supermodel braniacs
that you think you deserve
criste
one dumping
and the guys ready
to go belly up in his little fishbowl


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:11:04 AM

ice


always
and
forever
are ice into my heart

she said these
when she really meant

after i finishing blowing all your friends


sorry hi sh

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:12:07 AM

linear logic

i woke up to muskrat talking
religious bullshit to someone in the doorway
it was nine am and we had been up all night
with an apartment full of drunks and dopers
skrat yammered on and on until
i had to get up
i tossed on some shorts and
walked toward the door
there was silence as i approached and
i noticed skrat
had a three foot bong in his hand
and was waiting to exhale
but
said he to the jehovahs witnesses
perched to enter
if you believe that the meek
shall inherit the earth and they do
then they wont be the meek any more
theyll be the fuckers running the show

they looked at each other and apologized
for taking his time
he slammed the door and exhaled the rest
andsaid its a simple question of logic
no one who believes in that shit
is using linear logic
only one hundred and forty four go to heaven
and they all think they are one of them
id rather drive the bus to hell
than hang with those freaks

it was hard to argue his point
in a strict linear logical fashion


sorry ninenineeightthree
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sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:12:45 AM

devil

i have a destructive friend
he has a clot on his liver from drinking
i try to quit smoking all the time
but every time we hang out he calls me
nicky jones
and waives my brand of cigarettes
under my nose
i always take one
and i always buy him a shot of makersmark
we will both die
because of and in spite of each other
thinking the other is the devil
being unable to resist


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:13:31 AM

poinker

so he says to me
quote
my wife thinks i dont like sex
because i dont crave
fucking her at every given drop of a dime
and
because i dont moan like
im having my kidneys
ripped out
neither does she
i wonder if she fucking someone else
she probably is
bourbon rocks
endquote

cant decide whether he felt bad because
his wifewas cheating on him or because
he had driven her
to someone else because he isnt
a histrionic poinker


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:22:24 AM

black beauty the short version

a girl who gave me my first bj in highschool
was doing blacks at an alarming rate
i bought a bunch of
black capsule caffeine pills and
slipped them to her
you know so she wouldnt od on me
her mother found the pills and the
bitch blamed me instantly
got a call from her mom and i told her to
have them checked out that her daughter
was on blacks and i switched them
to save her life
two days later i am hung over and
the doorbell rings
i get up in my jockeys and answer the door
its her mom she wants to talk
wait let me put some clothes on
itll only take a minute
we sit in her toronado 
she rubs my leg and tells me
how mature i am for my age
smelling mrs robinsons sexual frustration and
knowing her willingness to do her highschool
daughters boyfriend i let her go to the point that
there was no mistaking her intentions
then i told her what a
whore she was and i would
tell her husband
walking into the house i noticed
my sister staring out
at me through the window
i thought
man that totally fucked up
a perfectly good hangover

sorry nineninesevennine

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:24:22 AM

ass

i hold their small child
smiling and curious a life yet to be lived
i know he will turn out to be
an ignorant bigoted wifebeater
just like his father
and pray the father leaves his mom
for some mindless piece of ass

sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:24:52 AM

power

never underestimate the power
of a carefully placed comment
in the mind of a suspicious psychotic

sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:25:42 AM

finger
it was college
thats the disclaimer
she was gorgeous and
no one had the balls to ask her out
except me on a whim
she said yes
i was psyched
she stayed over and undressed in front of me
i was very psyched
then she lay there like it was
my job to please her
and she would not lift a finger

maybe too used to her finger


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:26:15 AM

caught her

she looked breathtaking in the silk blouse
i gave her long ago as a present
for no reason

we were foodshopping in an
airconditioned jumbomart
she went to the only cashier line
that had a male cashier and
looked down at her own
hardened nipples
as she talked small talk to him
when i showed up
with the butter we had forgotten
she looked at me
and blushed
as if i had caught her


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:27:36 AM

icarus

an uncomplicated man
banged into me after he had a brief
and subdued discussion
with the significant other
a lithe and intelligently seductive
self assured woman

she kept saying
three words to him that
always make me paranoid and suspicious
sorry
and
trust me

fucking bitch

they sauntered out of the room stopping
to shake hands with a couple of people
smiling amicably

saw him smoking a butt out near my car
as i left
he was blubbering like a baby

too close to the sun



sorry union sq ma

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:28:38 AM

commitment

johnny a was a big guy
huge some might say
his overweight carcass came into work one day
we worked together in a factory that printed
wrapping paper with toxic chemicals
so that perfume bottle boxes would look
slick as ice
he hated his job he
hated his wife
he loved his kids
he worked twentyplus hours a day
half in this hellish osha nightmare factory
half as a security guard
he told me one day over coffee that the factory
could be sued if someone got hurt cos they
didnt have proper safety guards on the winders
winders are the monstrous machines that
wind two ton rolls of paper all day
his wife had another baby
i watched him jam
his arm
into the machine and break it in
eleven places under a roll of oscar de larenta
i called him a week later
hes collecting disability suing the company
and still working as a security guard
cos his kid needs enfamil
thats commitment


sorry hi bigj

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:29:14 AM

hold her

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

tho id be holding her
she wouldnt be held


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:30:49 AM

paranoid too

his tale went on

so he says you lock everything
you really are paranoid
i thought to myself
only a person who has tried
every lock
would know that
everything
was locked
and then i knew
the fucker
had been through all my shit

and i thought
yeah he has



sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:31:57 AM

for free

dr john and are are having a smoke
outside the office in chelsea ma
when a ho walks up in an outfit
that could only be described as hookerwear
and
starts to ask dr john if he would like a date
wink wink
dr john goes flush and stammers out a no no
im married
she walks upto me and says
oh you i ll do you for free
to wit i reply thanks but i wouldnt want
to give you my cold

dr john gets all bent because
never
in the entire time he has worked
in this godforsaken section of
heroinhotown
has a hooker ever offered to do him for free
i really didnt think
it was as much a compliment as he did


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:33:31 AM

no idea
originally nice necklace

me
me
me
me
me
me
me
me
sitting here with the glazedoverlook and
theemptyhandpokerface
listening to this bitch
sell me some shit about how
ultimatelyfantastic she is
all i could think of was
damn
that tune gets so old
so quickly

me

like she has any idea who she is


sorry
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sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:34:43 AM

a recent conversation

so what happens if someone
takes you pennyante advice
and does off themselves
what the fuck are you some
kervourkian for the
lamespirited

wow i never thought of it as a
problem with someones
spirit

maybe it is

in a world of cash as cash
can i may have overlooked
the one thing that separates
us from the monkies who
fling shit at each other from
trees

spirit

wait a minute

were not really all that far out
of the trees yet

sorry_e_elumbar35 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:35:25 AM

bug in butt

he ranted
lose
lose
like this is some fukking
game

this is my life you asshole

yikes
is it me or are people wound
really tightly this days
i think the prozac generation
needs a bit of detox
or at least
another beer
to kill the proverbial bug in
the butt

cheers

sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:12:08 AM

beguile

she stopped for a second
holding her word half said
dangling and then
looked down at her breasts
the four guys standing in front of her
hung on that
unspoken syllable as they stared
at her chest as well
she had them all by the nuts
there was going to be a fist fight over her
later
when the beermuscles got turned on
she knew it when she looked up
and saw them all
staring at her hardening nipples
she loved it
i caught her eye
she looked away and blushed
blushed exclam point
busted
intrinsic value hath no meaning
when a woman doth beguile



sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:13:09 AM

bewildered

i m trying to sleep after doing
twenty four straight at
winthrop hosp when i hear
the sound of a trainwreck on
west fifth
i look out to see
chelsea pete and okie
walking toward my apartment
ding zzzzt i buzz them up
what the hell pete you
plowed right into the hydrant
says me
its a rental says pete
bewildered at my concern

sorry n chelseapete southie

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:15:59 AM

wim

she gives me that look
you know that look
like im the fallen angel in her
wim wenders movie
grabbing onto the bottom of her rope
while she spins in all beauty above me
i decided that a double was the better bet
just cant suck anymore life outta me today


sorry

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:17:31 AM

will to tilt

he bitches in ernest
what am i to let society raise him
he says incredulously
shouldering the brunt of all of the evils of
violencesexdrugsandgoddammedrocknroll
on his wee shoulders
a father crusades to protect his son
from the slings and arrows of
outrageous misfortune
and stares at me with anger

yo
your eyes are like roadmaps to canton ohio
and your breath smells like cheechs van
slipping your kid a ten spot each day
and hoping he comes home at night
really aint no way to feed and nuture
an eleven year old boy
so
hopdown don qui high horse
your mirror is your windmill
and the tirade of your
will to tilt
is wilting



sorry fall river

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:19:38 AM

early idiot

wait wait wait
hurl
i throw the snowball as hard
as i can and it finds its target
dead on
i learned then that i was an
idiot
for six years old or not
nobody but nobody throws
snowballs at a police car in
front of their own house

sorry six li

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:20:09 AM

crannies

then it hit me crystally clear
most people dont know the difference between
the truth
and a carefully crafted and
effective marking ploy
nooks and crannies my ass


sorry breakfast

sorry_e_elumbar35 Saturday, March 28, 2009 3:21:13 AM

dog

andy wiped his bleeding knuckles
on the table
obviously proud of himself
for kicking the living crap out
of the big guy
who had just dropped his girlfriend
with a punch

sometimes its not the size of the dog
in the fight
its the size of the fight in the dog

he said as he slammed
his twenty four ounce pabst
he bought it for a quarter

i thought that redneck
toothless old man bars
are going to be
the death of me yet


sorry nineteeneightsomething

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