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    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm
    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm
    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm
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    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm

    By Bucky Sinister

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    A veteran poet of the working class who layers his gritty truths with street punk humor. A menagerie of strange people and stranger moments that linger in the dark hallway of Sinister's life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWrite Bloody Publishing
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781935904496
    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm
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    Bucky Sinister

    Bucky Sinister, is a spoken word artist who performs at comedy clubs and theaters, primarily on the West Coast, but also around the country. He has published nine chapbooks and three full English collections of poetry, the most recent being All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go. His first full English CD, What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia was released in 2007.

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      Time Bomb Snooze Alarm - Bucky Sinister

      Time Bomb Snooze Alarm

      a collection of poetry

      by Bucky Sinister

      Write Bloody Publishing

      America’s Independent Press

      Long Beach, CA

      writebloody.com

      Copyright © Bucky Sinister 2012

      No part of this book may be used or performed without written consent from the author, if living, except for critical articles or reviews.

      Sinister, Bucky.

      1st edition.

      ISBN: 978-1-935904-49-6

      Interior Layout by Lea C. Deschenes

      Cover Designed by Anthony Wyborny

      Proofread by Jennifer Roach and Sarah Kay

      Edited by Courtney Olsen

      Type set in Bergamo from www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com

      Printed in Tennessee, USA

      Write Bloody Publishing

      Long Beach, CA

      Support Independent Presses

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      To contact the author, send an email to [email protected]

      Time Bomb Snooze Alarm

      One, two; one, two fuck you.

      I was first exposed to the writing of Bucky Sinister not through his poetry, but through one of his other books. For those unaware, he has penned two volumes that could dubiously be referred to as self-help. Following in the stumbling foot steps of so many writers before him, Mr. Sinister used to drink prodigious amounts of alcohol and then proceed to make a royal ass of himself. I was in the middle of some chain bookstore (and a twenty-year bender of epic proportions myself) when I happened upon his first book.

      That book helped me get down the road to my present state- a sober and relatively sane member of society. But it also opened up a question for me. In that book, Bucky made constant references to his poetry and how it suffered under the liquid yoke. I began to wonder about said poems, and if they were worth a shit. I picked up All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go and discovered that the man could indeed write.

      Ah, the all pervasive myth of the hard drinking writer/musician/artist. Our culture is saturated with it. I certainly bought into it for far too long, resulting in a huge pile of disturbingly stained notebooks full of illegible scrawling that invariably trailed off into giant block letters reading FUCK!.

      Sinister wrote a good deal about the state of mind that brings you to the giant FUCK! again and again. But he ended that volume on an upbeat note. After all, you can only read so many poems ending in vomit and black eyes before you want a drink. Could he write about more than just the wreckage of his past?

      The volume you hold in your hands answers that question. And the answer is: A LOT more. Yes, there are some drinking tales with bizarre occurrences. Who doesn’t like a good drinking story? But you can go to any AA meeting and hear those.

      What really gets me with this one is Bucky’s unerring ability in each poem to take you to places he’s been that I know for a fact are real. How do I know this? I’ve been to most of those places. For those of you not from the underground scene (or whatever you want to call it) this book is your ticket there. A place you can’t just waltz into uninvited like your friendly neighborhood Starbuck’s and soak up some faux-culture with your latte. No, this is the darker side of life where some really amazing and bright things happen from time to time. Heart breaking beauty in a corner of the county landfill.

      Like Bucky says in my favorite poem in the book, The Gray Side of the Moon:

      There were no camera phones

      No Flip Minos

      If it was happening

      and you weren’t there

      you missed it.

      If you were there, you’ll recognize it. If you weren’t, this book is a great way to catch a glimpse. Enjoy.

      D. Randall Blythe

      Richmond, VA

      2011

      Foreword

      A lot has changed for me in my life since All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go, my last collection of poetry. I entered the self-help world and started performing standup comedy. There were two books about recovery from drug and alcohol addiction that are now better-known than my poetry books. I’m now a self-help author with a past in poetry and who does comedy on the side. But now with this

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