Ballad of the Red Bag Man

<p><strong>Ballad of the Red Bag Man by Kirk Alex</strong></p><p> </p><p>Blue collar <strong>free verse</strong> without the fakery & pretentious bullsh*t.</p><p> </p><p>Won't find any of that bogus/tough-to-discern rhyming crap here that way too often is squeezed out</p><p>by certain academics with the cushy gig to impress their white collar pals. Guess what? Most of us</p><p>have no use for it. Scream it from the gut or else don't bother. Better yet flush it.</p><p> </p><p>The author has been a cabbie/factory worker/warehouse shipping clerk/bread delivery driver/plant</p><p>nursery flunky/printshop gofer/meat plant packer/shelf stocker/jackhammer operator-to mention a</p><p>few jobs he's toiled through over the years in order to subsidize the writing. It's called paying dues.</p><p>Hand-to-mouth. It goes on. Wage slaves. Millions of us. Get it.</p><p> </p><p>This is for readers who relate to writers like Bukowski/Louis- Ferdinand Ce?line/Knut Hamsun/Nelson</p><p>Algren/Eddie Bunker/Derek Raymond/Jim Thompson/John O'Brien/James M. Cain/Horace McCoy/</p><p>Dan Fante Chester Himes Clarence Cooper Jr. Donald Goines et al who nailed it raw & real</p><p>without the convoluted agenda & word trickery.</p><p> </p><p>Kirk Alex is also the author of Blood Sweat & Chump Change - L.A. Taxi Tales & Vignettes; Lustmost:</p><p>Anatomy of a Serial Butcher; the Edgar Doc Holiday L.A. Private Eye series the Chance Cash Register</p><p>Working Stiff series and a few other novels & short stories.</p>