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Now how would I know what is considered "cool" or not?
what a silly question
1. I'm just a guy — who likes the way silk panties and nylon hose feel on his cock
who still buys his herb from the Jamaicans downtown because he can't find a steady hook
likes to stand around and listen to them say things like
"wudda gwan" & "rasclot"
take in the smell of jerk chicken and curry goat
2. Stealing aerosol is art to me
once carried out the order to deface every surface available to me and unsecured
like in the late '80s when I took that bus ride to NYC
sat there nervous and desperate in the seat with my hood up
the man sitting next to me played some country & western song
that I could barely hear coming from his headphones
went something like —
"remember when Coke was a cola and a joint was a bad place to be"
it was all cool
even when the Indian on 42nd street told me
"this I.D. will work anywhere I assure you"
while I scribed my name in the counter and watched him laminate the card in plastic from behind
stepped out that door a new man
a "man" now for the first time, for that matter
but the pushers still drove a hard bargain
took me for all I had
was broke within an hour
had to find a transit cop... ran up to him
"I've been robbed!"
"all happened at Grand Central by a gang of black kids"
that's how I got the free train home.

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With several small press publication credits to date he constructs some of the most wonderfully twisted writing without all the rules. Thought provoking & brutally honest. Sometimes erotic or even down right dirty. All of the time real. This describes Sean C. Bowen's writings on the everyday thoughts that course through the human animal. Urban writing of the highest calibre, full of nasty fibre and calories; skeletal and street level like the best Velvet Underground or Lou Reed. myspace.com/yeskone.

posted 12.17.07.

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