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Since I've moved to Missoula, the Street Lit authors in Austin have moved to a new site at http://streetlitauthors.org/, run by the awesome Tony Nuñez and Phil Force. 

Below you'll find Street Lit news posts from my Austin years with the group, and a selection of the creative works of the
 Street Lit Authors Club. I'll be posting new works from the Missoula folks sooner than later, so keep an eye on us. We've got great things in the works.

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Disclosure Eyes (Explicit!)

11/13/2015

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Disclosure Eyes
by Numskull

Presto let’s go bring your best flow
Gun ho gusto manifesto of Destro
Need to peep these hip hoppers
So hella proper then read ‘em
And weep like a soap opera 
TelePrompter
Because there ain’t no comedy
Trying to survive reality
Just a bunch of zombies
With a hive mentality
Your who cliques sheep
Muppets and followers
Can take my dick deep
Suck it and swallow it
So fuck the establishment
And these reptilian monsters
Tongue split running shit
Like Sicilian mobsters
Facial recognition retina scans
Surveillance cams skull and bones
Patrolling drones from the throne 
Of Uncle Scam.
False profits false idols
False sense of entitlement
Back to send you wack flunking
In early retirement
With no goofs parodies
Spoofs or outtakes
You’ll get spooked by the truth
When reality takes shape.
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all connected to the whether

11/11/2015

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ALL CONNECTED TO THE WHETHER
by Tim "Dezi" Reid

I always knew this day would come
Sometimes felt that it would never
Figured that all my problems 
Were all connected to the whether
Whether I took advice from others 
Or figure it out on my own 
Go see friends about my problems
Or whether, I’d call them on the phone  
Whether I stayed too long at parties
Barely walk from all the snow 
Sometimes I’ve fallen on the ice
From not being able to just say no
Whether I’m the last one at the party
Or the first one to arrive
Whether or not, I drink too much 
Sometimes just to feel alive
Whether I passed out from the pills
I thought would somehow kill the pain 
Sometimes stay inside for daze 
To find myself outside, standing in the rain 
But today, it finally came to me 
Hopefully remembering from now on forever
Somehow all the problems in my life
Are all connected to the whether 
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Thank you to the UT English Department!

11/4/2015

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Thanks go to Elizabeth Cullingford and the UT English Department for putting on a book drive for us!

Here's the newsletter article, by Natalie Sharpe, with all the details:
UT English Department holding book drive for English junior Barry Maxwell’s organization, Street Lit

​And check out the collection bins, built by the fine students of the department's work study program:
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T.C. Boyle photobombing the poster...
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You paint loud

11/2/2015

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You Paint Loud!
by Anonymous

      You paint LOUD!
      with eyes screaming wide.
             Teeth rattling the backs of my eyeballs,
             Color wailing through open windows,
             Shapes bellowing over gray-slicked streets.
      You drown out the red-blue sirens,
      and shout down like a boss
​              the erasures of the day.



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