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Mike DeCapite

Mike DeCapite's [dee-KAP-it-ee] published work includes the novel Through the Windshield, the chapbooks Sitting Pretty and Creamsicle Blue, and the short-prose collection <emRadiant Fog—that's what he's going to read from today. His work has appeared in 3:AM, CUZ, Evergreen Review, and Sensitive Skin. His novel Jacket Weather is coming next year from Soft Skull. Mike lives in New York.

Doc’s Clock

Mike DeCapite

Doc’s Clock was a good place to get out of afternoon’s flare-up, when the sun over Mission Street was blazing toward some painful equipoise between day and night, and hung in a shaft through the transom and the open door...
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Evergreen
Essay

Love

Mike DeCapite

I went to St. Louis and stayed with Ted and Kit for the weekend. They’d been there a couple of years, I guess. Ted had bottomed out in Brooklyn and they’d moved home to St. Louis for him to get straightened out. Their...
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Crazy Mike

Mike DeCapite

an excerpt from RUINED FOR LIFE! On a thick night in June I was waiting to hear from Luke and Crazy Mike. Kitty’d gone to bed, knowing it would be late if they showed up at all. I opened the fridge and stared at the pro...
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Dennis Gordon miniature Lower East Side 01
The Miniature Lower East Side
Mike DeCapite
The Miniature Lower East Side I've been drawn to abandoned buildings for as long as I can remember. As a boy, the challenge and malice of breaking into forbidden places w...
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Tom Savage Sensitive Skin Poetry Month 2017
The Last Time I Met Allen Ginsberg
Mike DeCapite
The Last Time I Met Allen Ginsberg I was walking through Tompkins Square Park About two years after the brain surgery From which I was still recovering. I saw Allen. He came...
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Rabbit and Crow, by Jóhanna Ellen
Rabbit and Crow
Mike DeCapite
Rabbit and Crow watched as the sun came round over the field. "Did you sleep well?" Rabbit asked Crow. “I dreamed that I was running through the meadow,” said Crow. ...
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Painting by Don Van Vliet
Paintings of Don Van Vliet
Mike DeCapite
Don Van Vliet, more widely known by his pseudonym Captain Beefheart, retired from music in 1982 and devoted his life to painting. Asked why he didn't go to his own openings, he...
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Whenmill by Ryan Choi
Three Dancers and Whenmill
Recordings by Ryan Choi
Mike DeCapite
Three Dancers is the debut release from composer Ryan Choi. The album derives its title from Pablo Picasso’s painting, Les Trois Danseuses, and features three intensely kinet...
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