Tom Baker

Joined June 2018

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Author of Haunted Indianapolis, Indiana Ghost Folklore, Midwest Maniacs, Midwest UFOs and Beyond, Scary Urban Legends, 50 Famous Fables and Folk Tales, and Notorious Crimes of the Upper Midwest.: http://tombakerbooks.weebly.com

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Hell's Basement
(There is a place in New York City, They tell me is called "Hell's Kitchen." I'm uncertain where it is specifically located.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Church Bells
It is a bright summer day when a little boy Carries a mason jar of water to the side of an Indiana house, baking Out in the summer sun so long ago. (Squatting naked in the bright white glow of yesterday's noon times.)
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Arthur Rimbaud: 'Fairy' and 'Democracy' (1886)
Fairy For Helen, the ornamental saps conspired, in the virgin shadows and the impassible clarity of the astral silence. The ardor of summer confided in the noiseless birds, and the requisite indolence of a ship in mourning, without expense, literally priceless, sailed through gulfs of dead loves and fallen fragrances.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
ContactTV
I recently went into the hospital for a heart catheter test. I ended up having a stent placed in the most serious valve of my heart; which was, by the way, 80 PERCENT BLOCKED. I suppose if it is a hundred, that's it. I did it to myself, of course: that all-fat, no-carbohydrate diet I was doing for months and months. I figure I nearly committed ketogenic suicide
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Futurism
Arthur Rimbaud:"Royalty" and "Marine" (1886)
Royalty One lovely morning, in a country among those people known to be gentle, a superb man and a woman cried aloud in the public square:
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Arthur Rimbaud: 'Ruts' (1886)
To your right, the summer dawn awakens the leaves and lazy mists, the noises in this corner of the park; in the slope to the left, in their violet shade, lie the gratings of a thousand wheel ruts in the moist earth. A parade of Fairies? No, in actuality, the wagons loaded with animals of wood and gold; wooden poles holding up the multi-colored canvases, gallop behind, at a grand speed, twenty spotted circus horses, and men and babes astride astounding beasts. Twenty wagons of the most striking aspect, decked out with flags and flowers, like something from an ancient legend, full of children attired as for a suburban pastoral.--At the same time, coffins passed there too, their canopies of night rising above ebony plumes, behind the step of great blue-and-black mares.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Arthur Rimbaud: "Back When" (1886)
Formerly, assuming I remember correctly, my life was a banquet, wherein all hearts were open, and all wines flowed. One night, I sat beauty on my lap.—And I found her to be bitter.—And I hurled abuse at her.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Babel
A vast, limitless throng of prisoners walk the slick, cement pathway upward; This could be the Tower of Babel (scene from Metropolis, 1927).
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
The Pilot
The old man with the white whiskers, Flies his little single-engine prop plane, Perilously close to the road below, strafing a cowering auto
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Arthur Rimbaud: "To a Reason" and "Lives" (1886)
To a Reason A tap of your finger on the drum releases all the sounds, begins a new harmony. A footstep of yours, the progression of New Men and their forward march.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
"Rock Around"
"One two, three o'clock, four o'clock!" (Drum rumbles and rat-a-tats. Horns rise.) —and we is watching a film, all lying like lazy leeches on couches
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets
Black Bird
What symbolism is at the bottom Of a black bird (raven), Squatting on a half-eaten buffet (The table) long after the dinner has commenced?
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Poets

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Hell's Basement

Church Bells

Arthur Rimbaud: 'Fairy' and 'Democracy' (1886)

ContactTV

Arthur Rimbaud:"Royalty" and "Marine" (1886)

Arthur Rimbaud: 'Ruts' (1886)

Arthur Rimbaud: "Back When" (1886)

Babel

The Pilot

Arthur Rimbaud: "To a Reason" and "Lives" (1886)

"Rock Around"

Black Bird

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Hell's Basement

Church Bells

Arthur Rimbaud: 'Fairy' and 'Democracy' (1886)

ContactTV

Arthur Rimbaud:"Royalty" and "Marine" (1886)

Arthur Rimbaud: 'Ruts' (1886)

Arthur Rimbaud: "Back When" (1886)

Babel

The Pilot

Arthur Rimbaud: "To a Reason" and "Lives" (1886)

"Rock Around"

Black Bird

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