3 Nylon Lemons

Vincent Quatroche

Description

3 Nylon Lemons is divided into three sections: A collection of poetry written forty plus years ago- Some fragments of my fathers’ writing I discovered in his personal archives after his passing-and current work of my own collected since 2020 publication of Retread Rubber Eden. Lucky Ward (a constant theme named after a beloved teenage companion) is a series of prose snap shots of a Nursing Home I worked in as a very young man called Villa Care in Bellingham Washington in the late 70’s. Terrible Now that advanced age has visited me, I can only look back at those words and shake my head in amazement. The fiction of those days has become Stark Reality. With some very minor editing the original perspectives remain intact. This collection concludes with current prose/Poetry and stories that emerged from our post-pandemic world.

Sujets

• Word
• Poetry
• Words
• Fragments
• Vincent

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 30 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798369403693
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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3 Nylon Lemons
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vincent Quatroche
 
Copyright © 2023 by Vincent Quatroche.
 
Library of Congress Control Number:
2023913638
ISBN:
Softcover
979-8-3694-0370-9
 
eBook
979-8-3694-0369-3
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rev. date: 07/29/2023
 
 
 
 
 
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PREVIOUS WORKS
Print
3 Nylon Lemons 2023
Retread Rubber Eden 2020
Q-Bop City 2018
Got Abstract? 2014
Sometimes Grief- barks up the wrong tree 2012
21 Short Dog Stories 2011 (Collected Short Fiction)
The Terrible Now 2009
CyberStein 2007
Greetings from Gridville 2006
Attitude House 2002
Another Rubber Eden 1998
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Audio
67 Sounds – Projected release 2024
Vanishing Breed Vol. 2 /Revised CD format 2018
Seeing Eye Ear Digital edition 2017
Quattro-Vox 2013
Singing Mr. Cedric 2010
Vanishing Breed (Collected 90s cassette series recordings Vol. 1) 2008
In Dreamthink 2006
Matador from Another Planet 2002
 
For more information regarding the availability these works
Please visit www.rubbereden.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cover Art- Dance 1951-Reprint 1998 - Vincent Quatroche Sr.
Lucky Ward original manuscript transcription - Anna Smith
Back Cover Photo- Brandon Perdomo
 
 
 
DEDICATION
Quatroche Paterfamilias
 
I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this
You know there’s nothing
More than this
- Bryan Ferry
Why am I putting so much effort
Into such a Mediocre Career ?
-Ron Swoboda
The Pages of this book are blank
The books Robinson has read
All day the phone rings.
It could be Robinson
Calling. It never rings when he is here.
-Weldon Kees
“leave wizard Henry: at his lectern where
he’s working on his phantasies: Disperse!
and everything goes from bad to worse
so the world fills with her knees, harmful & fair:
a medium where ‘Fuck you’ comes as no curse
but comes as a sigh or a prayer
-John Berryman
“Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.”
- Herman Melville
Vince- soon be back-at Dorothy’s. I will clean up-please don’t
I love you-
-Lauren
-FORWARD-
I am sitting here out on the end of Lost Island in the empty shell of the family home. These rooms echo with ghost whispers of our family. Both parents have passed and my sisters scattered to various other lives elsewhere. Built in 1957 the modest Levittown tract house on the corner lot of Sunset & Sutton for pennies on the dollar is worth a small fortune today. So far none of us have had the heart or guts to underwrite the inevitable disposition of property. On this overcast muggy June afternoon, I write this in real estate limbo while listening to the radio.
This project is a reflection of time gone in a world so swiftly in a wash of memory. Much like the LI Sound bluffs a block away up the street. Down the 67 Steps the perpetual tides come in and out wearing down immense glacial drifts ground down into pebbles. Later I will walk the beach picking up stones that catch my eye as my father once did when we used to visit there when I was a child. I still that regard that shoreline my primordial pool. The undulation of the Sounds voice is deeply embedded in my consciousness and I expect will be there till it is my turn to leave this earth. I truly hope that in the afterlife the Sound will follow me there.
3 Nylon Lemons is divided into three sections: A collection of poetry written forty plus years ago as a nurse’s aide in Geriatric home in the Pacific Northwest- Selected fragments of my fathers’ writing I discovered in his personal archives after his passing-and a representation of current work of my own since 2020 publication of Retread Rubber Eden.
Lucky Ward (a constant theme named after a beloved teenage companion) is a series of prose snap shots of a Nursing Home I worked in as a very young man called Villa Care in Bellingham Washington in the late 70’s. Terrible Now that age has visited me, I can only look back at those words and shake my head in amazement. The fiction of those days has become Stark Reality. With some very minor editing the original perspectives remain intact. The current prose/poetry and stories emerged from our post-pandemic world. I marvel that we survived that period and how our culture’s short-term memory has moved on so swiftly in the terrible now. I find myself always wondering just what might happen next and if we will be afforded the opportunity to sustain our fun-house normalcy that seems to unravel and fragment on a daily basis.
As I finish this introduction in mid-July and move toward the production/publishing date in later Summer/early Fall I reflect that this a collective that spans some 70 years of creative work of my father and I as young men- with the last chapter a distinct foreshadowing into the very uncertain future and the inevitable march of the terrible now. I’m going to close here with a quote from a writer I have always admired and respect.
“ All of which is to say, I didn’t pay a hell of a lot of attention to grammar, spelling or typos and when I write it is for the love of the word, the color, like tossing paint on a canvas, and using a lot of ear and having read a bit here and there, I generally come out ok, but technically I don’t know what’s happening, nor do I care.” ― Charles Bukowski - On Writing
VQ- 7/17-2023
CONTENTS
Lucky Ward
First Impressions
Robbery
War Crimes
Intempesta Nocte Nuntius
Opus I
Popular Topics
Across The Nation
The Meaning Of Fear
Untitled
Medication
Scatology
Another One Night Bed Stand…….
I REMEMBER VALIENDA
Opus II
Goodpastures Syndrome
Where’s Rena?
Aides
After Work Reflection
When Your Shift Is Over
Collected Works of Vincent Quatroche-
On Washington Street
Selected Passages by VJQ from the Collection entitled Wine upon our Lips April 1946 September 1946 Revised January 1951 Abridged July 2023 Recent Work 2020-2023
How Long Have We Been Out To Lunch ?
Notice Of Vacancy-2.0
Your Shot
Mister Clean
Wrong Number
Scouting Report For Poetry Pitchers
Meeting Ginsberg at Christmas time -For Allen
AWOL Po
Untitled
Yes
Tiny Talent Time
Mundane Quartet
 
Remembering the Yuppies
Listen
Donya
The Kindest Act 2.0
There Never Will Be- Enough Again
She Said-
Uncollected Dream Song 3.0
Hate Nation
There Will Be Hell To Pay-
May Shorts 2021
In case of emergency-
It wasn’t all that funny Valentine
Marks
 
Who’s Your Daddio?
Edna At The Pearly Gates
The Grudge Match Meditation s -for all those that need them-
Bent Carrot Blue s -a prelude for Joey Slade-
Let’s talk Dicks
Before Artificial Intelligence 1.0
Dawn Dreamboat
July Shorts 2021
Another Slip-ism For Leo Gorcey
Minor League Poet
Roll the Credits
What Kind of Guy was He 9.0
It was in the Script
The Therapist
 
White Men Can’t Stink
On Being Post-Beat
Before A I 2.0
Lost & Found Fragments 2.0
Charade 1963
Ah Spring !
Public Service Advisement
Failure to Launch
Senior Citizen Environment Report
 
9/22/22 Short Subjects
Ever Notice ?
Really ?
This Poem
 
Understanding Garbage
Before A I 3.0
All the Short Dogs are Barking
Once upon a lecturer
So- You actually do watch Fox ? 1
So -You do you watch Fox 2
Every New Programming year
The Devils Phone
In Silence
Your 3 minutes
 
The Misfits – For Viviana
Stark Reality 2.0
New Year Shorts 2021
The Answer Man-
Anatomical Exit Strategy Definition
Naming Rights
Do the Zombie Zoom
What Kind of Guy was He? 10.0
Excuse Me
100 Times
 
The Kitchen Tables
Do we hear what we see ?
If I could write in 3 D Stooges Poetry
In the front yard
 
Visions Of Benjamin
Wish I Knew
Validation
 
Lucky Ward
-for Pumpkin
Circa 1979-1981
Current version edited July2023
Bellingham Villa Care will always be remembered best as Vending Machine Pokerfun cup with the nine of clubs; jack of spades and two of hearts filled with Coca-Cola (extra ice); a December issue of People magazine; a plastic package of Doritos Nacho cheese chips at three o’clock in the