I Have No Clue [Paperback]

Jack Wiler (Author), Dan Shot (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0965473805 | ISBN-13: 978-0965473804 | Edition: 1

Poetry. These poems are interesting exhortations, rants and meditations on subjects relating to working. They are bound to strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to make a living. When I read the inimitable Jack Wiler, I can't tell if I'm laughing or crying, or being punched in the teeth by the Zeitgeist. Here is true grit, true rage, true fear and lust, true language. If you hate your job, read this book. Read it anyway. Face it and laugh (Alicia Ostriker). I could hear the worms in the walls. / Old house borers clicking in the timbers of the attic. / Termites tumbling over each other / in the damp wood of the basement. / Everything working very fast hastening decay. / Work fast we all cried. / There is the devil's work to be done. / Work fast. (The Devil's Workshop). In Jack Wiler's world it's always busy for no discernible reason except so you can tell the difference between the working stiff and the stiff stiff. Wiler's the Poet of Scabs and Warts, where every glimmer has a slammer, a can of can't, a dose of don'

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Anger
Bensonhurst
Blackbirds Bye-bye
Bob Grindlay
The Brain Holds Everything
The Devil's Workshop
Dollars And Sex
Domestic Life
Evangelism In The Jurassic Age
Every Man's Dream
Fat Of The Land
For Levi
For Money The Monkey Will Dance
For My First Wife Asleep In Her Bed In Buffalo
Free Will
The Hoboken Poem
Hunting Blind
I Love The Gutter
If I Could Get Drunk It Would Still Be Today
Isla De Mujeres
It's About The End Of The World Stupid
It's Just A Job
Its A Dog Eat Dog World
Jehovah's Witness
Looking For God In Downtown Jersey City
Meditations On Natural Man
Messages
Monkey In The Middle
On Being A Man
On The Occasion Of The Death And Resurrection Of Our Savior
The Prodigal Son Does A Little Dance
Prophets: Verses 2-27 1994
Rats In The Walls
Thinning The Herd
Tonight I'm Lost
Work
Work Til It Hurts
Your Mother Calls You To Dinner
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 62 pages
• Publisher: Long Shot Productions; 1 edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965473805
• ISBN-13: 978-0965473804
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,305,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Although for some reason in the list of items i have bought, this book is listed as written by someone named Dan Shot, this is written by the late, great jack Wiler and it's great. Not for the faint of heart, Wiler tells it like it is, and this book has a great deal of real, righteous and honest anger. Not for little kids, but although schools probably wouldn't want them to read it, teenage boys would love this.