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For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.


Hubert Selby Jr.

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HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
HUBERT MARTIN She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
HUBERT MARTIN She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the pag...
HUBERT MARTIN And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke ...
HUBERT MARTIN The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.
HUBERT MARTIN Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.
HUBERT MARTIN I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh....
HUBERT MARTIN They flew to avoid the horrors of land and sea, Daedalus and Icarus were for few moments free. Thoug...
HUBERT MARTIN With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the not...
HUBERT MARTIN He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could t...
HUBERT MARTIN He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretc...
HUBERT MARTIN Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops,...
HUBERT MARTIN Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
And you a woman o...
HUBERT MARTIN An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
HUBERT MARTIN Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
HUBERT MARTIN ...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
HUBERT MARTIN It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer...
HUBERT MARTIN Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've ...
HUBERT MARTIN