From the Static Billboard Dreams of a Modern Day Beatnik

By Red Moon

This book was written during the span of 1 year, from July 4, 2011 until July 4, 2012.Th e poems are a reflection of the authors life-his studies and the current events of the 366 days that passed of this leap year.

Its ideas derive from all aspects of inspiration-encompassing a full range of topics and emotions

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475944839

Red Moon

Jose Carlos Pereira is a graduate of East Side High School-class of 1986-from the Down Neck Section of the Ironbound-Newark N.J….He received an Associate’s degree from Kean College in English Literature. He is also known as Red Moon.

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From the Static

Billboard Dreams

of a Modern Day

Beatnik

A book of poetry by

Red Moon

iUniverse, Inc.

Bloomington

From the Static Billboard Dreams of a Modern Day Beatnik

Copyright © 2013 by Red Moon.

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ISBN: 978-1-4759-4481-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-4482-2 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-4483-9 (ebk)

iUniverse rev. date: 02/27/2013

Contents

1.   The Sisters of Mercy

2.   A Better Way

3.   Broken Sorrow

4.   The Empty Drought

5.   The Conquest of Tripoli

6.   Hit the Rewind

7.   August

8.   Hurricane Irene

9.   A Double Rainbow

10.   A Good Night

11.   In the Taste

12.   25 Years Ago

13.   Where’d September Go

14.   Last Day of the Month

15.   I’ve Been Up

16.   You and I

17.   In Full bloom

18.   A critical Place

19.   A Better Love song

20.   The Twilight Zone

21.   De la Vida

22.   La Esperanza

23.   Casa Stoia

24.   The Mass Revolution

25.   October Snow

6.   Halloween

27.   November Remorse

28.   The Greatest Generation

29.   11-11-11

30.   Peace and War

31.   The Universe Eternal

32.   In the Pipeline

33.   Days of the Futures Past

34.   A Derivative

35.   On Caracalla

36.   Get Things Right

37.   The Italia

38.   Fragile

39.   The Remnants of a Past

40.   The Computer Age

41.   Christmas Gift

42.   A Time to Go

43.   A Slice Of Life

44.   Spiritual Ascension

45.   A Place on Winfield

46.   Another Day

47.   A Woman’s Love

48.   The Consummate Wife

49.   The Annals of Time

50.   The Kiss of a Butterfly

51.   The meat Grinder

52.   The Mystery of Life

53.   The Night

54.   The Spring

55.   Leap Year

56.   Start This Off

57.   The Passage of Time

58.   Humility Before Nature

59.   To Youth

60.   Magnate Noesis

61.   A Golden Afternoon

62.   On Papyrus Scroll

63.   A Fog Filled Night

64.   Love Abated

65.   Walking on Flowers

66.   A Vestige of Something

67.   Invisible Lines

68.   Our Sunday Best

69.   Our Modus Operandi

70.   In the Realm of Borrowed Light

71.   Running Water Clean & Pure

72.   In the New Dawn

73.   Supposed Infinity

74.   The Enigma of Life

75.   The Ultimate Goal

76.   A Great begotten Glory

77.   The Doors of Paradise

78.   Splinters of Tablecloth Daylight

79.   Embroidered Romance

80.   Laminated Misery

81.   The Eternal Female

82.   From the Book of Zechariah

83.   The Spirals of a Sea Shell

84.   Urbi et Orbi

85.   The Stillness of Fate

86.   The Final Hope

87.   The Shape Shifter Cult

88.   The Universal Formula

89.   Of Gods and Men

90.   The Crystaline Orb

91.   At the Perigee

92.   Sanctum Sanctorum

93.   Helios Sol

94.   The Power of Destiny

95.   The Gods that Walk the Earth

96.   Satan & God

97.   Photons of Another Time

98.