As the Ghosts Ripped and Tore

By Joseph B. Raimond

Unable to travel due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Joseph B. Raimond had the time to write and edit these new poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jun 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9783754350652

Joseph B. Raimond

Born in 1962 in Omaha Nebraska in the United States, Joseph B. Raimond was the son of a US Air Force officer. After living in such diverse places as Laon France, three different places in Virginia, Denver Colorado, Dayton Ohio, Darmstadt Germany, and finally Los Angeles California, Joseph B. Raimond moved to San Francisco California where he studied art, with an emphasis on ceramics. After completing his Bachelors degree in 1985, he moved to the Fuerth Germany area, where he has lived ever since, refusing to ever move again! He completed his Masters degree in the spring of 2009 in Humanities, focusing on the interaction between various forms of art and expression. He built a house in the year 2000, complete with a painting atelier and recording studio, where he is able to work on his painting, writing and recording projects. Besides many exhibitions óf his paintings in Paris, San Francisco, Munich, Koeln, Berlin and his hometown area of Fuerth, Germany, he has under the collective name Doc Woer Mirran published almost two hundred recordings of his audio art and music. He has also written more than thirty books, most of which feature his punk-rock inspired form of writing. Pulling no punches, everyone and anyone can become a target of his politically inspired poetry, his favorite victims often including republican and other right-wing politicians, television evangelists, reality shows, lame pop icons and arrogant jazz guitarists.

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Written in Fürth Germany 2017 to 2021

As always, in loving memory of Frank Abendroth and Tom Murphy.

For Conny, my perfect angel

Dedicated to Eric Woolfson

Cover art by Joseph B. Raimond As The Ghosts Ripped and Tore watercolor and spray-paint on paper, Fürth Germany, 2015.

This is DWM release Nr. 185

Contents

Phonograph

Hate

Joe Loaf

Can’t Can’t

Ballerina

Daddy

Thread

Rizla

Artistic Motives

A Lifetime

Broken

Bye Bye Rush

Silly Woman

Of A Lifetime

Civil Cold War

The Establishment

The Right Expression

Maintenance

Expecting To Fly

Budapest

The Ultimate Equalizer

Competition

The Glooming Hour

Honestly,

Toom

Employment

Withering

Timidity

The Ultimate MILF

Revive

Uncivil War

Amy Apples

Wait

Cough

Silent Prophets

Son

Citizen Joe

Discount

Fist Of Laughter

International Bastard

Cornered

As the Ghosts Ripped and Tore

Phonograph

No

I don’t want to buy that shampoo

On sale at some shithole store

In a limited-edition bottle

And smelling of strawberries

I don’t want to test drive

Your new model SUV

(stupid ugly vehicle)

With zero percent financing

If I act today!

I don’t want

To enroll in your business college

And earn a bachelor in business

To get me