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new paintings

If anyone wants their portrait painted please contact me- I'll be doing lots of portraits the next year and I would gladly take most commissions. Here's my email address: Nickbontorno@hotmail.com

tom waits

Down by the Riverside motel
It's 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh, your hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing
Hold on

Jenny and Alan came by and we painted Jenny

an autumn poem?

Leaves gather at the edge of the field

Like old friends reassuring.

The confidence of summer

Has given way to the sobriety

Of all things becoming temporary and impalpable,

Throughout summer I command my days

Now I am a beggar-

Chilled and disillusioned

I find a path among the leaves

And Orion begins his arc overhead.

I think Andrew showed me this

places

the only thing I don't like about the west is how fashionable it is for people to fall in line. Even the rebellious young people swarm in trendy hives. Everyone should read a little Emerson. Get some transcendental in you.

a drawing

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” Walt Whitman