the drunken boat...

I use to have a copy of Rimbaud's "The Drunken Boat," and I cant find it right now--its pissing me off. Alot of my books are missing I am discovering as I want to read them and they are nowhere to be found. Its an understandable situation though--they are probably somewhere in either San Francisco, Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Airport trash can, or Philly PA. I've had to give away or leave alot of my stuff in those places...ah well. Thats what I get for the trouble.

In case you havent figured it out...this is a picture of A. Rimbaud...about 17 years old I believe...just before he goes off with Verlaine to begin his writing career. What I love about Rimbaud that not only was his writing fucking awesome...but that his career was so short. He decided at I belive 19 or 20 to stop writing all together, even though he had an obvious talent for it. No one really knows the reasons why he quit, but it was like one day he decided, "fuck writing," and became something totally diffrent.

Whoever reads this, if anyone, should read the Drunken Boat...when i buy my new copy, if you want i will give it to you if you dont have it. I'm like that w/ books...again, this is probably why i am missing so many.