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Shadows Before the Maiming

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I love Scott's work. Many people accuse me of still being to much of a "beat"- and if that is a name they want to stick on me- I'll wear it proudly. Scott's work is highly implicative of the entire beat movement and I find that very enlivening. He runs a movie reel stream of consciousness for us to peer, and experience the

Interior workings of one man's Mind, a man of OUR time. Many people (mostly those that don't access the internet) feel that poetry is dead. A past life form. Poets like Scott breathe vitality into the new, the next, the "our" generation of poets- which is alive and flourishing due to the networking we writers and poets are doing via the internet. Scott is an important part of the structure we're creating on the web. A SAMPLE POEM

Halloween, 1998

Shaved head, mascara, black eyeliner & black lipstick, wearing my Shadow Project t-shirt, the one with Rozz holding a large knife above a naked girl behind swirling veiled curtains i cut myself the blood runs deep and ruby covering my arm it congeals in lumps while some drips off people walk widely around me as i go into a bookstore and buy Soldier of Fortune then on to Tower to get two new My Dying Bride CDs and then on for Japanese i might go see London After Midnight at Coven 13 tonight i might sit at home and write lousy poems i might play with my cat and then go trick people to death it's a freeze frame happenstance reality of sickness and i pop 3 Xanax and fight back the urge to go out and murder the bitch sitting in the bank's parking lot beside me

1999 Scott C. Holstad Leslie Blanchard

Editor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal ISSN: 1521-2319