Title: Never-Ending Cigarettes
Description: Pay attention. Exactly this lesson Scott lays out line by insightful line in his newest chap. Beginning and ending in the confines of coffeehouses, he points out that caffeinated moments of conversation and meditation can only grow by feeding them with life experience. Scott then takes the rest of the book to describe and analyze life as he sees it in the big city. The usual bad boys, druggies and hookers run the streets of the west, the ER ward works overtime, and all around everyone’s looking for some sort of revolution: salvation for the unrighteous. Scott finds his in an open mind flowing into well-constructed verse, a hot cuppa joe, and some cool jazz. It all keeps him sane and able to sleep at night, making for a guy with something interesting to talk about.
-- Pooch, Flipside Magazine vol. 120, 1999
Subjects: poetry, confessional poetry, mental health, contemplation, beat, street life, observations, sanity, life experience, working class, addiction, coffeeshop
Places: Los Angeles, Long Beach CA, Pasadena, Glendale CA
Time periods: 1990s