Q Bop City

By Vincent Quatroche

Q Bop City is given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas on the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labours abandoned left unfinished grave still abode of stones in a word I resume alas abandoned unfinished the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis alas the stones Cunard (mle, final vociferations) tennis... the stones... so calm... Cunard... unfinished... by Samuel Beckett More info www.rubbereden.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984541215

Vincent Quatroche

Coughed up somewhere in the Terrible Now the public at large and critics agree that probably Vincent Quatroche doesnt really exist other than a rather speculative wild fiction were limited attention spans stare into electronic 3.2 inch plastic rectangles. Embracing both encroaching age and perpetual obscurity is every beat poets dream without either the benefit of reasonable perspective or rationale behavior. Career Educator and Poet Vincent Quatroche refuses to just get lost. A truly disturbing afterthought he insists in sticking around like duct tape. While insolence as persistence is hardly a virtue, he will seldom read you the same poem twice, unless you are asking for it. Originally from Long island he is currently languishing in over-State NY teaching at regional colleges. He is a published author of numerous creative projects, including Books, CDs & Videos. His poetry has been distributed and pulverized into the Cyber Void throughout the United States and abroad.

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COPYRIGHT © 2018 BY VINCENT QUATROCHE.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER:       2018908438

             ISBN:               HARDCOVER                 978-1-9845-4123-9

                                      SOFTCOVER                   978-1-9845-4122-2

                                     EBOOK                           978-1-9845-4121-5

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Previous Works

Foreword

Where is Lucky Ward?

Beat Poetry Horse Race

The 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time

10/10/10

V.I.A.I

Meet the Ancient Mariner (for PG)

Steam Heat Cool

Your Second Skin

Come Back Big Mike

The End of the Semester Faculty Party

The Colleagues Talk 2.0

Education

Crossword Poetry

Sound Light

Swinging for the Fences in Q-Bop City

Of Odds & Pitch Counts

If Only

I bet infinity

Burning June

How the West was Lost

Hearing Aide

Fuck Waste book

Trio Striking Attitudes in Rome

Infestation

Lost Hour Maria

Her Oval Frame

Remembering Echinacea

Visions of Kenny

The Unsinkable Agnes Turner

October Shorts 10/15/15

The S Sound

Please Tell Me…

Astounding heart of the line up

Ode to John Dunn

New Year Shorts 2013

Calling it Quits

Grudge Instructions

Her Alabaster Blush

Solving Tornados

Uneasy is the Head that wears the Crown

Shoulda Coulda….etc.

Holiday Buzz Kill

Sonic Aquarium

Anti Social Media

April Shorts 2015

Genderizing Kafka

Your Frozen Rope

What did he say?

The Vindictive Proof Reader

Am I out of Costume?

Who derailed you?

Literary Crime Scene

Substance Abuse Diagnoses

1st Day of Summer

Who was stuck with Who?

June Shorts 2017

Professor Meltdown

Cheap Dates

Look

Beware

April said Goodbye

How quiet is it tonight?

Versed in Persuasion Gutted

Happy Anniversary

Kentucky Re- Fried

Digging Cyber Caesar up

So- You actually watch Naked and Afraid?

Did You Know?

The Hit Man

Walter Matthau’s Hat

The Time Machine

1984 2017

May 2017 Shorts

Playing Russian Roulette Cyber Phone

We are all we will ever have

We Saw Horse

Man….unless…

Left at the dock

The Missing Beat Link

Did you call your Mom Today?

Procrastination Puss

Lost Nicknames

Really, Really Lost

V.I.A.I 2.0

May Shorts 2018

Empties for the Tribe

Designated for Assignment

The Mail in May

The Puzzle Poet

Naked and Afraid 2.0

DW-40

Unseasonable

All your Devices

Mozart & Me

Lost & Found June Fragments 2018

Wipe your Feet/Wash your Hands

Hey Moe!

Your Emotional Lottery Ticket

Drinking with Scratch and Sniff

Preferred Bumper Sticker

Everybody is a Critic…but

Stock Market Relationship Crash

Look

Three Things to do with a Poet

Millennial Job Performance Evaluation

What’s Smatter?

Make Mine Ground Glass

Cinema Paradiso

Double Think Indemnity

On the Corner of Broadway and 39th

Aftermath

What kind of guy was He?

Real Life Cyber Funnies lost & found in the Spam

Listening to Bananarama in Tonawanda

The Neutron Blonde

THE LAKE AFFECTS

Selected Poems from David Lunde

You and Vincent

A Greeting for Boni-Iris

PRIVY

Dreaming of Li Po (1)

Dreaming of Li Po (2)

Wine upon our Lips

Selected Poetry Passages

By Vincent Quatroche Sr.

1946-1951

Next time I see you again

The Stars of Lid

A Life Sentence One Day at a Time

Selected Poems From 14 Years teaching the Chautauqua County

Jail Mayville NY

Winter

Saturday Afternoon in the Can

Tuesday Night Lesson Plan at the Little House

Bar Without Matches

Chet’s Pal

Welcome Wagon with Flat

Life Sentence, One Day at a Time

More from Saturday Afternoon in the Can.

A Pause with the Warden

Weeping in the Walls

Short Sentences

Booking the Centipede

Visiting Hours are…

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Creative Sentencing

V Formation

Someone Else’s Police Reports

Nothing to See Here

Booking

Summer 2/6/1996 – 6/30/2011

Lucky, Lulu, and a Cat Named Bo

The Alcoholic Cycle

Acknowledgements

Cover Art

Sutton Place

Vincent Quatroche Sr.

Circa mid 1950s

Previous Works

Print

Another Rubber Eden 1997

Attitude House 2002

Greetings from Gridville 2006

CyberStein 2007

The Terrible Now 2009

21 Short Dog Stories 2011

(Collected Short Fiction)

Sometimes Grief- barks up the wrong tree 2012

Got Abstract? 2014

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Audio

Matador from Another Planet 2002

In Dreamthink 2006

Vanishing Breed 2008

(Collected 90s cassette series recordings Vol 1)

Singing Mr. Cedric 2010

Quattro-Vox 2013

Seeing Eye Ear 2017 Digital edition/Revised CD format 2018

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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."

-Kurt Vonnegut

"It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."

-Rose Kennedy

"There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want."

- Bill Watterson

Sarcasm is the weakest weapon

- Reid Mahaffy Sr.

The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.

-Huxley, Aldous. Texts and Pretexts.

"There’s a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden."

-Jerzy Kosiński, The Painted Bird

Somebody asked me: What do you do? How do you write, create? You don’t, I told them. You don’t try. That’s very important: not to try, either for a Cadillac, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It’s like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it’s looks, you make a pet out of it."

- Charles Bukowski

Foreword

Q Bop City is collection of recent written work produced since the 2014 publication of Got Abstract? Included are selections from some very important people and experiences that have helped shape perspective and voice that composes both the POV and sensibilities of my expression, I recently ran across a collection of Poetry written by my father Vincent Quatroche Sr. in a yellowed with age Manuscript (never published) from the late 1940s written very soon after he mustered out of the Air Force at the conclusion of WW 2. While he was recognized primarily for his artist talents, the poems included provide a rare intimate glimpse of a very young man’s passion and love for life. As I have always contended my father was my first teacher who had a seminal influence on my perception of what constituted creative expression later in life.

Of significance as well is the inclusion of selected poems and translations from my old friend, colleague and mentor Professor Emeritus David Lunde who taught Creative Writing