Losing in Gainesville (9781940430331) (59 page)

And leave the land for the worker bees

For the ocean and the sea

Is the life for me

For the ocean and the sea

Is the life for me

Peace.

APPENDIX E:

A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF THE HAIKU WALL

 

Hmmm: Triumph, or Rush?

Canadian Power Threes

Both? Neither? Neither.

 

Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar

Ba-rino. Bar-Bar-Bar-Bar

Bar-Ba-Rino. Jeece!

 

Welcome Back, Kotter

Arnold Horshack, Juan Epstein

Boom Boom Washington

 

At Gatorroni's

I saw this nugget today

With tits out to here:

 

Bam Bam Bigelow

Babyface, or Heel?

Wrestlemania!

 

Jake and the Fatman

One guy's Jake, the other's fat

Jack and the Fatman

 

When Darby Crash said

“someone get me a beeyah”

He would then drink it

 

Maux's drunk on vodka

William's swiped Metrognome

Roger eats tofu

 

Devo: Mark, Bob One

Bob Two, Gerald V., Alan

Not much is better

 

The Really Rottens

The Laff-a-lympics Bad Buys

Heavens to Murgatroid!

 

Mushmouth says to me

“Beeba deeba seeba see,

Soba doba boo.”

 

OJ, OJ, O

J, OJ, OJ, OJ

Jeez, who gives a shit?!

 

Dee Dee Ramone on

The bass guitar wrote many

Of their greatest songs

 

I like it when the

Grungy guy in the grunge band

Is all like: “eeeeeeeeeeeyeah!”

 

It's Sanford and Son

Oh! Elizabeth!

This is the big one!

 

The Robert Plant bum

Been a long time since he had

A home. Ramble on.

 

Oh, Beetle Bailey

You are so slow and clumsy

Careful, Sarge is mad.

 

At EPCOT Center

I got lost at Morocco

Land but bought a fez.

 

Webster has a dad

It's George Papadapolis

Alex Karras, dude

 

Curtains and the drapes

Do they match? Well then? Do they?

Folks should just say it

 

In the tacklebox

There are lures, bait, worms, hooks

At least I think so

 

Simon and Garfunk

Loggins and Messina, Hall

And Oates. Pro boners.

 

Steely Dan records

I like em all except the

First and “Gaucho”

 

Was watching jai-alai

The betters scream at players

Rip tickets, go home

 

The Jenny Jones Show

Moms and Daughters Who Party

Together, Bad News

 

We're talkin' big breasts

Here, the bounce em squeeze em kind.

Boobs. Tits. Juggs. Knockers.

 

My socks are itchy

Will you please scratch them for me

My feet, not my socks

 

Portobello slice

That's what I want, what I get

I think Neal farted

APPENDIX F:
oreGONE, XMAS
'
95

 

SIDE A

“Isabel”—Unrest

“Driveway to Driveway”—Superchunk

“Baby's Way Cruel”—Guv'ner

“Zurich is Stained”—Pavement

“You're a Million”—The Raincoats

“Window Shop for Love”—The Wipers

“24”—Red House Painters

“Our Secret”—Beat Happening

“Mothra”—Spoke

“37 Pushups”—Smog

“Slugger”—Tsunami

“Parasol”—Sea and Cake

 

SIDE B

“Facial Disobedience”—Radon

“Image of Me”—Flying Burrito Brothers

“Questioningly”—Ramones

“Game of Pricks”—Guided by Voices

“Twin Falls”—Built to Spill

“Seven”—Team Dresch

“Supreme Nothing”—Tiger Trap

“Insomnia”—Versus

“Port of Charleston”—Seam

“Tragic Carpet Ride”—Polvo

“Sorry”—Galaxie 500

“Realize”—Codeine

BRIAN COSTELLO

 

is a writer, musician, and comedic performer living in Chicago, Illinois. He plays drums in the band Outer Minds, and co-hosts Shame That Tune, a monthly live game show.
Losing in Gainesville
is his second novel.

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