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flILL 1990 . Three Dollars $ 3 0 ENT A Randomly Published L. A. Journal of the Arts =#=/J INSIDE: BUKOWSKI, GINSBERG, EDIE KEROUAC, IG.OR ORLOVSKllVICHSTEINIAN, & L.A.'s BEST POETS! - More John W. Hart III News! -Bye-Bye Bebop! After many John was the guest on DodgerTalk, years as the boheme headquarters of the K A BC Dodger Talk Show - a MOMENT the San Fernando Valley, Bebop dream-come-true for Ill and another Records and Fine Arts has packed small step I giant leap for poetry! their bags and moved on. Where? BY Well, Bebop is always everywhere! Owner Richard Bruland, who has MOMENT featured poetry and music over the years in his cozy used-record store and f me art gallery, took it all in stride. Rumors flew that the police IN THIS GODDAMNED ISSUE! But, in the Meantime, the CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS - following were occurrences of vital Many a star, darlink, did indeed ' chased away "those crazy arteests," BUKOWSKI POETRY! AND importance, so read them carefully ... receive the Moment as of late ... you but who really knows?!. .. perhaps FRONT AND BACK COVER! - Bukowski came out with got your Matthew Broderick with Bebop's time had simply come. Septuagenarian Stew! And a great Helen Bunt in San Francisco Tharkyou, Richard and Bebop, for GINSBERG HAIKU! book it is indeed. And happy 70 to ya strolling down the street happily the ~any , many ~emories of poetry BUK and happy anniversary, blah accepting a little bit of poetry: and readings, open mike nights, music, EDIE KEROUAC INTERVIEW! blah .. More importantly, we rapped Ken Osmond (aka Eddie Haskell) and good times. Long Live Bebop! withtheol' BUKattheraces. Welost said, "Gee thanks, I haven't read - Other books to check out - POETRY FROM - that day. You' 11 notice his unique poetry since high school"; and, ah, poetry by Daw1i Allred Viotto· artwork on the front and back covers Ray Manzarek, Ron Kovic, John poetry by Gerald Nicosia, poetry by THE CARMA BUMS! of this here mag. Doe and Dave Alvin (not the math Bucky Sinister on manic d press; - John W. Hart Ill came out teacher) all got a Moment at the new poetry from Zeitgeist Press GER.\LD NICOSIA! with a new book on and books press! tribute to Kerouac; and oh yeah, BUK bio soon!, and more... ' It is called Dugout Poems and it's hopefully Charlie Sheen received - Rhino Records held a Tribute JOHN W. HART Ill! about the whole Dodger season. the Moment we sent him after he got to Kerouac at Highland Grounds to Every game! and made baseball out of rehab (Charlie was quoted as celebrate the Kerouac record release. THE MOMENT MEN! cards and posters... Good job John! saying, "Drugs are a toboggan ride to Hundreds of people showed - the - The Carma Bums embarked hell!" Whoo, Charlie, what a rush!); place was jam packed. Moment Men LINDA KING! on another tremendous tour of Doug The Knott, The Enigmatic Lyden andBartno/werelisted on the words. S.A. Griffin, Doug Knott, Phil Bailey, and Moment Man Eric program of poets reading that night AND OTHER GREAT Scott Wannberg, Mike Bruner and Lyden all took pies and chatted w/ as "the editors of a controvers;at underground poetry magazine." Ha! WORD-WORKERS FROM mike m. mollett set out from the William Burroughs at his art THAT'SALLFOLKS SOUTH ERN Cl\LIFORNIA Iguana leaving behind but a trail of opening in Beverly Hills, thanks to also AND BEYOND! dusty words for the next crazy Earl McGrath Gallery; 0 u reading over the horizon and under attending the Burroughs event were co 8-27-90 - 10/2/90 the sun in this vast expanse of Danny Sugarman and Fawn Hall, ....'- 0 America . Their send-off show, who didn't need a Moment as we had (.) Pressed again to go to press. Well, which included Ellyn Maybe and laid one on them at Cafe Largo u guess what, boys and girls? This mag Ron Maxson, was something like a weeks prior. (An interesting aside- I 'l'd de,;, >co a here in your hot little sweaty hands Grateful Dead show, complete with asked Fawn if she'd John W. Hart 0 may just be the last Moment .. ever?! space and drum solo ... Ill's book "The Found Poetry ofLt mO> Well .. at least for a real long time! Col. Oliver L. North." Needless to Sure, we do owe you an explanation. say, she was taken back by the tlASTURBATlllG It has to do with Belushi writing question, but admitted she saw it at Noble Rot at the Chateau Mannont, Book Soup: "I didn't like it at first- and it has to do with Jesse Helms it was such a sensitive subject - but "spanking" the Pope from behind, now I can see some humor in it."); MAKERS OF THE MOMENT - SPECIAL THANKS TO - Moment Man1 Mike Bruner and Verlaine shooting Rimbaud (or Bill Walton and Grateful Dead ERIC LYDEN! Sa~ lyricist John Barlow were given S.A. Griffin, Maria Abel, C.C. Lyden Rancho was it Rimbaud who shot Verlaine?), KEVIN BAR1NOF! Antonio Print Shop (Paul and Jack), Buk, Red, John and disposable art, and yeah, DaDa Moments a t a Dead s how by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Ambassador Bailey; other recipients W. Hartill, lgorOrlovskivichsteinian Dan "Conduif' and Max Ernst and Paul Eluard and bowerb;rd hitelUgentleman! included Harry Dean Sta11ton, • O'Connell - Pleasure Broker, Da:e Wharton, and World Wars I and II and J. H. lil and K.T. Dali and poetry readings and grants Harry Ni/Ison, Ringo Sta", Don Please send all inquiries to: Was,lggyPop,andLeonardCohen. and $ and mainly, weJl, god , - The Moment/Shelf Life Press, 22704 Ventura Blvd., Please include a S.A.S.E with all submissions. we're just so damned tired. #245, Woodland Hills, CA 91364. We got this L.A. Grant and we 're or call (818) 992-POEM. © 1990 Shelf Life Press deciding whether we want to become pOETllY a non-profit orgasm and get bigger aoori.l.lfE and bigger grants and blah blah. tstS) The Moment/Shelf Life Press retains reprint rights. All other rights for resale or republication are retained by the contributor. That's a big chWlk of it guys. THE CAR.HA BUHS 99 2-PO~ No S~at Belt s Tour of Hords 1990 2 BEFORE THE 7TH RACE, ONE MILE, $32,000 CLAIMER have carried this notebook all day at the racetrack and have written nothing. am now on the 2nd floor of the Pavilion, men's crapper, sitting here within these cool grey walls I find solace 5 in a common function: something at last to put to paper. CHARLES BUKOWSKI TWO YOUNG SWEDISH HITCHHIKERS , PICTURED HERE IN A Ill VENICE YOUTH HOSTEL IJ THREAT publish this poem motherfucking editor or I will steal your wife shit on your pillow and drive away in your car LARRY LEWIS NEON WARRIORS J ULY 4TH EVE, 19 90 last night hanging onto balcony hollywood Wftalking along downtown Geary St I 4 roomservice , _ a er a town hall meetin . went i send down a howl or two . on censorship in the art~ to He walked into the bar .and stopped as you sit up for the TV out the window bit we stopped to give some mone bed Surveyed, and I .a. is ours tonight to a mother holding her sleepin~ baby too Downplayed, the words are flowing like mercury I as she squatted, shivering, drunk the talent in the room. the sleek sunset race I at an empty theater entrance. to He was not his own man is covering our room in neon s h a d o w Next door, Les Miserables had explain In fact, he was not a man at all. the deposit sent out to dry an hour earlier closed its doors the Well, he was part man the room tax in my throat on the last of its audience law and part armadillo. you on surfboard peak. ('nd a couple of shops alo.ng of He was not his own man. i paris'ing over to the night hght .· in the window of an art galle ' pl~ce quantum But, there may be a hundred in line to take our Jos~ph Stalin was embracin ryg ' drinking tomorrow's CHILI for some Texan. but it's our show tonight · Marilyn Monroe, to no room left for growing up pal a IGOR ORLOVSKIVICHSTEINIAN no time left for us to look back he smili.ng.in his grey, braided generalr.ss1mo jacket, sewer the issue's gotta get out she posing as if the painter hole Orlovskivi~hsteinian,a poet and the maid'sa knocking at the doo rat. throw out the rope · T~~ ~~eh~ a camera. and the world~ MARKROKAS Romanian descent is an the elevator's broke was just a %~'a~u~~~~9f:~~eS~ and we're another year old today ... 1, a -.....,. Episcapalian Sagitarius who loves '$ s we walked through San FranCisco. water sports and Lucy re-runs. ERIC LYDEN 1( ACK HIRSCHMAN ..... FRANKIE KEROUAC - PARKER NUDIST LEISURE GROUP the sideshow interview ANNIE ARBY'S ANNIE, big buxsom and beautiful All the randomness of the cosmos Frankie Kerouac-Parker lives on the east side of Detroit, where she is currently writing her memoirs. Her late husband was Jack Kerouac. with long red hair falls together for one brief moment a sometimes addict staring down at your Philly Beef n' Cheddar and all the time alcoholic with horsy sauce Kerouac in Detroit to New York. We were only seventeen, eighteen then I started to read his books and dissect them.