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I’m feeling much better now that I’ve found my mind.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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i got the fear deep inside breathing hard i run to avoid the glare the pain of the lights the stares intrude invade i stumble up the stairs avoid inquisitive eye contact the darker you are the harder you die and they don't never care – i need to rest

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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they are a little more solid even in the exquisite nakedness of their existence and they glory in their reality and read music and dance poetry on the sidewalks and in the lavatories of bombed out buildings. we take their words and cup them in our hands and we take their lips and crush them to our selves and dream the dreams and think of sands and faraway places and wish for death and pray they see IT soon.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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A smile cures all forms of sickness, yet behind many smiles lies a set of very sharp teeth, carnivorous and rarely satisfied.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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i run from my dreams, romantic they are not. rather full of scream scenes, empty death masks, mutilated corpses, the walking dead, society in a mushroom. i run from my dreams and wake to pain without a god and without excuse – I will myself to move knowing i’m one step closer to death.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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Hell, they almost broke me. I worked in the back with people whose names were Gomez and Garcia and who could barely understand me. I unloaded sofas, washing machines, a cast iron stove for God’s sake. Nearly broke me. I looked forward to a cigarette break with a madman’s glee, and I was joined by the others, the cigarette the communal language. When I finally finished my community service, they gave me my paperwork to take back to court and on it they wrote great worker, thanks and I felt more satisfaction out of that than nearly all of my poemsies I’ve ever had published.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

i found out that a close friend had just experienced a terrible tragedy. her fiancé, not yet 40, had keeled over dead on the spot, no warning. i called her and she asked, if i am doing badly, can i call you to talk? i assured her that she could and she said, i might be hyperventilating or something. i told her that’s ok. i'll probably think it’s an obscene phone call and i'll have a good time with it!

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

apparitions of stick people torment me, of skeletal phantoms walking in rain deathly dead stick arms upraised to the gods. i knew one such apparition once, cheated of life by a diseased society intent upon deprivation of body and soul, identity as we would have it. i am haunted at times by what could have been.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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We are the people in cheap hotels and tenement housing walking down side alleys talking to ourselves. We are the people the pushers the whores the crackheads the gunrunners the bangers the pimps the homeless the outlaws the crippled the freaks the damned. Drink to us my friends for we are the forgotten.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

Naming is power, you know. That's what they say at least. My parents exhausted universal power in first creating me and then in naming me. They created for me an identity whether I wanted one or not.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

Strangers frighten me. They remind me of you. Blood spills into the tub. Cramped quarters. Essence of fire. And garlic. Sweaty palms and images of the Diva rock me. Is it too late? Is it? Strangers frighten me. I dance puppet steps killing me hundreds of times over and over; I have a sickness to battle with you always there waiting.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

chain link heat, a little over whelming some times when the sweat runs down your body like so many open veins jagged and throbbing

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

So little of what we observe is Actuality. Do we see/hear the words pouring forth? Are they Truth? I wish and hope but my future is predestined per my parents’ belief and that is denial and death, the deepest pits of hell, the thorniest of crowns, no sympathy, simply guilt, pain, anguish and lament. Call me your Anti-Savior and I’ll take on your pain too.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

You’re like a book I hate to read, a story I want to skip through to the end. You take my soul and blow me straight into hell. I’m high on wigged out poems, short shorts that don’t stop. Am I dead? I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S REAL! What about you?

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

I have to choose, lie down with my choices, make my efforts, try to get better, live to see my sickness not through crazed eyes, but through the eyes of a shared language – reconstructed depths of wholeness.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

There are two of me now, old and disfigured, new and disheveled. A crinkled, yellow newspaper balled up in the fireplace, spidery face, rotted jaw, sewn and resewn.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

fuck ‘em all. i wear my pain proudly like a loud scarf around some Manhattan bitch’s neck and i hold the leash of the poodle otherwise known as Dead To The World proudly in front of me as it takes a shit on the lawn of city hall

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

what society dictates, we consume, cattle gathering around learning devices called television, mouths opening wider while addictive morsels of consumerism are violently jammed into us and we lose more bits and pieces of our collective identity daily.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

I allowed you to destroy me, my self-confidence, my ego, my identity as a human being and as a man. for years i was a shadow of my former self. the pain you caused was brutal and intense but i have a new life and a new incarnation and you’re hardly worth thinking about anymore and being free at last of your clutches, I have a new world to look forward to.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

Indescribable. Met my match at long last. I can’t end it with grace and I can’t give a damn. We live this life as though we were already among the dead; perhaps we are.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

woke up with blood on the pillow, blood on the sheets, blood on my breath and blood in my mouth and the coughing started again and i turned to spit at the trashcan and missed and i admired the new wall decoration as i grabbed a cigarette to start the bloody day.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

I am my own power, my own home with blackened roses gaping at softened slashed easy chairs, furled requiems of silence, yet strength too -- of poetry, of the books, of the gods. I am my Own and I intend to be the keeper of My truth, the slayer of My dragons, the Exorcist of My demons.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

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