hope

a "Hope" poster hangs alongside the wrestler,
André René Roussimoff (Andre the Giant)
eleven and already a budding radical,
riding tricked-out electric skateboards,
and wearing “FUCK OFF” T-shirts

thirty-nine years old,
drunk on romanticism,
addicted to stimulating,
tender terrifying poisons,
a scum bag artist from the
streets of nasty tricks, an
influential, technically rigorous,
shit head operator of extreme means

fondly remembered for his roles in the film
“Without Permission” and "Hitler’s Bride,"
raised in a nightmare, the signature
image of the street working man
accompanied by a little lyrical paranoia,
the wacky caption inspired by the artist
“Obey Colossus" or, simply, "Obey"


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