Anyone?

Anyone ever read or hear of Hubert Selby, Jr.? He wrote "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream" and others.

I just by chance got a documentary on him and found him so dark but at the same time down-to-earth inspiring.

Whatever. I was going to quote his stuff, but figured it would offend my sensitive readers - ha! Look him up yourself. He seems to have had an authentic life.

Uncle Walt

I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abased to the other.

Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat,

Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,

Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

I mind how we lay in June such a transparent summer morning,

You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,

And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,

And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,

And I know that the hand of God is the eldest brother of my own,

And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,

And that a kelson of the creation is love,

And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,

And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and pokeweed.