Comments on: Everette Maddox reading series

By: Rockin' Bob

Rockin' Bob — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:05:52 +0000

Everette, Everette.All these years,all and those memories. Like being pulled over on the Causeway in a car as illegal as us and the cop asking you if you could walk a straight line and you said ” Are you kidding? I can’t walk a straight when I’m sober” and I’m stoned out of my mind and the cars were flying by like crazed bats and thinking ‘ not now Everette, please don’t get cute right now’ but then the most amazing thing happenes, the cop falling under Everette’s strange spell and giving us a ride to the end of the bridge. All those memories still burn bright of course, illuminated, as they were, as they are, by a candle burning blazing brightly at both ends.

By: antiplath

antiplath — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:48:51 +0000

Hey lilred – I don’t know if he died under a palm tree, but part of his ashes are buried under one, I think. Or at least near one. You can’t swing a dead meer cat without hitting a palm tree in New Orleans. Thanks for the comment – great stories. How lucky to have known him when he was alive though it is true, I think generally, that poets are not nearly as great company as their poems sometimes… and I say that as a poet.

By: lilred83

lilred83 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:42:36 +0000

Everette lived at my house in the early 80’s. He suspected my friends of smoking pot in his pipe, he called us “hippies” when we were punk rockers. I got drunk with him many times over many years and I still think about his sorry ass. He was a Mess! So happy to read about him on the internet. I looked him up out of the blue. I’ll never forget the day that he decided that he was going blind. He told me this….I want to die underneath a palm tree, or a ceiling fan…..Did he?

By: Wet Bank Guy

Wet Bank Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:21:38 +0000

Here’s the link you really need:

http://www.everettemaddox.org/