Author Archives: Rumrazor

About Rumrazor

Just a malcontent surviving in Los Angeles, working the news, writing the poetry, making the films.

With Girlfriends Like These

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Rumrazor

Historically humans can be known by their latrines, traced by the detritus in their wake, Calomel at abandoned campsites, Dr. Rush’s little pills. Fish, eggs, garlic, the homeless in the dumpsters, about as obnoxious as Fordyce spots. Mithras wearing surgical … Continue reading →

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The Body

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Rumrazor

The body has acquired an extended life, floating down the newly created Venetian canals of New Orleans, almost lazy in disposition, face up like a tourist, gaping at the beaded verandas and abandoned terraces of a moratorium Mardi Gras. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Lyrical Prose | Tagged Angel Uriel Perales, Big Easy, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina, lyrical prose, Mardi Gras, missa cantata, New Orleans, Storyville | Leave a comment

OLD PUNK ROCKERS NEVER DIE AND I WISH THEY WOULD

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Rumrazor

This evening I took the redline into DTLA at the invite of a friend. From the moment I walked in she was on her cell phone. Whatever. I don’t care. I’m tired at staring at my four walls so I … Continue reading →

Posted in My Daily Life | Tagged Agent Orange, Angel Uriel Perales, Camarillo, China White, Donita Sparks, DTLA, Flea, Gelson's, Henry Rollins, Hong Kong Cafe, L7, Mike Ness, Netflix, NOFX, North Hollywood, Punk Hostage Press, Punk Rock, redline, Social Distortion, The Vandals, TNT, True Value, TSOL, Whisky A Go Go | Leave a comment

Hello

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Rumrazor

Hello, another funeral, another trip home. When the clouds part and the plane dips north to south, like it always does, I see that shoreline creeping over to that crooked finger in the distance. I have to steel myself and … Continue reading →

Posted in My Poetry | Tagged Angel Uriel Perales, Caliban, El Fangito, El Morro, La Garita, La Perla, medalla, Poetry, Puerto Rico, San Juan | Leave a comment

Six Faces

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Rumrazor

I live in a miasma of ashes and the haze of Southern Comfort, speaking molasses, stuck in sorghum, and the only sweetness in this life was watching her smoke Newport Lights out of the hexahedron. The tiled table top holds … Continue reading →

Posted in My Poetry | Tagged Angel Uriel Perales, dominoes, halitosis, hexahedron, miasma, molasses, Newport Lights, Peach Schnapps, Poetry, sorghum, Southern Comfort | Leave a comment

The One I Love

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Rumrazor

Don’t bite I said biting is base she turned her back to me sat on side of bed kicked her legs out tiny tantrum channel on MTV changed got louder she hummed a song she liked sang she half-knew the … Continue reading →

Posted in My Poetry | Tagged Angel Uriel Perales, ass, catathrenia, doppelganger, margarita, mons venus, MTV, Netflix, Redbox, restless leg syndrome, Sonic | Leave a comment

Jameson Bayles – “searching for a voice” & “haiku”

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Rumrazor

“Jameson Bayles, a Kansas City, Missouri resident, has been published in various literary magazines and journals. His most recent work can be viewed in issue #10 of Hedgerow and in the poetry anthology ‘The Artistic Muses,’ published by True Colors … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Writer | Tagged Basho, Buson, Dana Scully, featured writer, Haibun, Haiku, Issa, Jameson Bayles, Kana, Kansas, Kansas City, Lawrence, Marie Lecrivain, Miles Davis, Missouri, Richard Modiano, Robert Haas, Senryu | 2 Comments

The Snee Poets

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Rumrazor

Going through the two dozen or so banker’s boxes in the back of my storage closet has only served to remind me how much University work I’ve done which I have then consequently forgotten. Four boxes full of essays, essays … Continue reading →

Posted in My Daily Life | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Angel Uriel Perales, Chinatown, denouement, Fatal Attraction, God's Acre, Laura Hart McKinny, Michael Cacoyannis, Moravian, NCSA, Puerto Rico, Romulus, Terminator, The Apartment, The Exorcist, The Hitcher, UNCSA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem | Leave a comment

SENRYU SENRYU SENRYU

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Rumrazor

April is fun poetry month and, in the spirit, I asked my Facebook friends to send me some Senryu. First let me provide a definition of Senryu. From Wiki: Senryū (川柳?, literally ‘river willow’) is a Japanese form of short poetry similar … Continue reading →

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Apryl Skies – “a capella”

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Rumrazor

a cappella there is a page I continue to turn to where a southern pacific marine layer dissipates over a valley horizon. angels are imagined but fall hard despite such hopeful wings. there is eye contact over whiskey and wine, … Continue reading →

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