This blog contains selected dribblets of Boots Dorfman's own finestkind O-Negative. For the whole wretched story of his odds-bodkins life, order Boots' slender volume of verse, Existential Mad Dog Blues, the True Stories, Songs and Screeds of a Great American Loser by Boots Dorfman. It is available from PublishAmerica, but hey, it's still a pretty good book, so try it, you'll like it!

"Friends" is a word
as gentle as lovers holding hands,
as welcome as a gift on Christmas,
as inviting as flames in the fireplace ...
you warm my heart.

I'm glad you're mine.
So, in this Season of peace and love,
I reach out in gratitude and pray that
you have a wonderous Christmas and…
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Image (c) 2006, Karla Dorman
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HISSISITY

... The sky puffed out in a hissy fit
of monumental ... h i s s i s i t y.
It chased its tail from one horizon
to the other and back again, bared
its teeth in wind and rain ... n… Continue

Image (c) Karla Dorman

IT DOES SOMETHING TO YOU

Living through disaster
bumps the impossible
a little bit closer.
It does something to you;
brings the alligator
so near it embraces
you in claustrophobic
teeth that won't. Let. Go, the
next time a storm comes near.
Fear…

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Image, (c) 2007, Karla Dorman.

TEXAS, MY TEXAS

They say everything's bigger in
Texas. Believe it: when the skies
stretch out forever; when lightning

does a do-si-do and a loop
from one horizon to t

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