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get the odd email
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JANIE PUNK
O JANIE PUNK
THE YOUNG YOUNG THING
FELT AN URGE AND STARTED TO SING
SHE SANG OF SEX
(NOT ONLY SANG)
AND INCITED A NEW YOUTH GANG
O JANIE PUNK NOT SCARED TO DIE
PROUD AND LOUD AND BRAZEN GIRL
DRESSED HERSELF IN BLOODY BLACK
SHE DIED AT AGE 16.
O JANIE PUNK
THE DEATHKNELL RANG
Okay, Avril Lavigne.
AN ANGEL SINGS THE SONGS YOU SANG
SHE’S WEARING BLACK, SHE’S SPIKED HER HAIR
HOW THE HELL DID SHE GET UP THERE?
O JANIE PUNK
YOUR INTENTIONS WERE GOOD
YOU CELEBRATED YOUR GIRLHOOD
AND PEOPLE LISTENED BUT THEY DIDN’T HEAR
BURNED OUT IN YOUR 16TH YEAR.
HARPS THEY GIVE
TO GOOD LITTLE GIRLS
AND NOT TO THOSE WHO SHOCK THE WORLD
BUT MAYBE THEN
THE SHOCK WAS GOOD
ARE YOU PROPOSING
YOUR SAINTHOOD?
THE NEW RELIGION HAS NO SIN
BUT NOT TO LISTEN TO WITHIN.
O JANIE PUNK
THE YOUNG GIRL RIOT
NOT HER STYLE
TO BE QUIET
O JANIE PUNK
THE DEATH KNELL RANG
AN ANGEL SINGS
THE SONGS YOU SANG
LOOKING PAST TRUTH, LIVING PAST CARE
THE RIOT’S RAISING HELL UP THERE.
–“JANIE...
Alyssa Greenberger was a strange case. As first she was just risible, sending dippy notes to my boyfriend Misha in the History class they shared – she was hungry, said one of the notes Misha showed me. She wanted pizza.
I met Don at Payday, back when it was at the Ukranian Home on Second Avenue.
I don’t know how long we’d been tripping for by that point. Hours and hours and hours, light ones and dark ones, and some surprisingly cold ones, for late spring; then again, it was night.
get the odd email
about Janice
Janice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir and other books.