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OHHHHHHHHHHH!
Blood's a Rover
is my ultimate masterpiece
It's the third and concluding volume
of my underworld U.S.A. trilogy
Volume 1: American tabloid Time Magazine's Novel of the Year
1995
covered 1958-1963
Volume 2: The Cold Six Thousand the full tumult of the American 60's
Blood's A Rover, the greatest of the three books
goes '68 to '72
Book starts in the
BADDDDDDDD
summer of 1968
We've got riots in the at the Democratic Convention in Chicago
You've got race riots at the G.O.P. Convention
in Miami
You got fallout, from
assassination conspiracies
that led to the death of Bobby Kennedy
and Martin Luther King
You got an armored car heist
You've got three right wing toadies
in love with the red
Goddess Joan
This iconic woman
explicates
four years of American history
Who was the red goddess Joan of my personal life?
that woman in reality
named Joan
left me reamed steamed and dried cleaned tie-dyed
swept to the side
screwed
blue-tattooed
bon-fon-gooed and I have
dedicated this book to her
You may be curious
about the title of this novel
Blood's A
Rover
is in Rover the dog
dig its arcane
it's powerful don't quite know what it means
Let me put this in perspective for you
It's a quote from a poem by A.E Housman
Let me recite it to you now
Clay lies still but blood's a rover
Breaths of where that will not keep
up land
When the journey's over
There’ll be time enough to sleep
lonely
haunted, driven men
their moral and spiritual exhaustion
their endless quest
for the women
they're helistrandlate with history
You have some wonderful real life historical characters
in bloods a rover. You have gay Edgar Hoover
Howard Hughes
known as Dracula
because he used to drink human blood
and you've gotten entirely reconstructed
hilarious bombed out
tricky *** Nixon
These fools
rub shoulders and other body parts
with an unalloyed cast of peepers’ prowlers, pet-her-*** patens, *** sniffers punks and pimps
'68 to '72 America
it was a wild ride
I am grateful
to have survived the era
to be able to write it
for you, by beloved readers
and Alfred A. Knopf, my beloved publisher