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    A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell
    A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell
    A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell
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    A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell

    By Erich von Neff

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    One sheet of paper is laid on top of another while the brass bell rings and the saxophone player plays. Meanwhile a sea of female flesh dazzles while pubic triangles are askew at Mike’s bar. An isolated woman shouts, “Let me suffer my fate.” A naked jagged bolt of lightening kills. It scorches the earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErich von Neff
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310274282
    A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell
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    Erich von Neff

    Erich von Neff is a San Francisco longshoreman. He received his masters degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University and was a graduate research student at the University of Dundee Scotland. Erich von Neff is well known on the French avant-garde and mainstream literary scenes. He is a member of the Poetes Francais ,La Societes des Poetes et Artistes de France, Vice Chancelier de la Federation Poetique de Saint Venance Fortunat, and Membre d'honneur du Caveau Stephanois. He has had the following publications in France (en français): Poems: 1303 Short Stories: 318 Small press books 9 Books 1 Prix (Prizes) 26 Erich von Neff's novel "Prostitutees au bord de La Route" (Prostitutes by the Side of the Road) was published by "Cashiers de Nuit" (1999) with a grant from Centre Region des Lettres de Basse-Normandie. Erich von Neff's book of poems "Les Putains Cocainomanes" (The Cocaine Whores) was published by Cahiers du Nuit, 1998. "Les Putains Cocainomanes " was discussed on 96.2 FM, Paris, 1998 by Marie-Andre Balbastre, Poem # 45 was read. Several poems from "Les Putains Cocainomanes "were read at the Cafe Montmarte in Paris,2010. Several poems from "Les Yeux qui faiblissent ont faim de la vigilance eternelle de la verite "were read at the Cafe Au soleil de la Butte in Paris, 2014. Poems from " Un Cube chrome a l'interieur d'une coquille d'oeuf cassee" were read at the Cafe Au soleil de la butte" in Paris 2014. A Trophée Victor Hugo was awarded to Erich von Neff's novel "Une Lancia rouge Devale Lombard Street a tombeau ouvert," (The Red Lancia Roars Down Lombard Street), 1998. Several poems from my "Le Puttane della cocaina" (The Cocaine Whores) were read by Giulia Lombardo at the Caffe Litterario in Rome, at the Caffe Palatennistavolo,Teni Italy & Caffe degli artisti in Milan, Bookbar in Rome, Bibliocafe in Rome , and in five other Italian cafes in Italy,2014. Several poems from my "Le Puttane della cocaina" were read by Giulia Lombardo at the Caffe Palatennistavolo,Terni Italy in February ,6 readings in May 2015, 3 readings in June 2015, 2 readings in July, 4 readings in August, 4 readings in September,3 readings in October, 5 readings in December, 2015. 2 readings of my "Le Puttane dela cocaina"were read by Giulia Lombardo at the,Caffe Palatennistavolo,Terni Italy, January 2016. 2 readings of my "Le Puttane della cocaina" were read by Giulia Lombardo at the ...

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      A Chrome Plated Cube Lies Within a Cracked Eggshell - Erich von Neff

      A chrome plated cube

      lies within a cracked eggshell

      The chrome plated cube cries,

      "Let me out.

      Let me out."

      when gently released

      The chrome plated cube says,

      "Set me on your table.

      Polish me.

      Rub me.

      Be fascinated by me.

      Never drop me.

      Never let me hit the floor."

      The Urinal*

      I rubbed my fingers

      on the smooth pine plank

      next to the urinal

      Affixed to the plank

      is the partition

      The partition that hides

      my penis from the next guy

      As I rub the plank I ask,

      "Speak up.

      Who has rubbed you before?

      Did you bring them good luck?

      For you bring good luck

      whenever someone rubs your smooth surface.

      You speak not.

      Perhaps you know too much.

      Who are you really?

      I rub you.

      I piss into the urinal.

      I flush.

      I flush again.

      ---

      *Safeway Food and Drugs, 735 7th Avenue. Men’s urinal, 4:30 pm, Tuesday October 29th, 2013.

      The New York Visit to San Francisco (1964)

      He huddled in the closet

      I doubt he thought much about Euclid

      or trigonometry

      He huddled there for four hours

      listening to his girlfriend laugh and joke

      with her parents

      while eating

      and he heard the clink of silverware

      and the slurp of soup

      He being black

      and she a nice white woman

      from New York

      He being black

      was not acceptable

      to her parents

      And so she hid him in the closet

      What did he think about

      during those four hours?

      And she?

      And her parents?

      They were in abstracted harmony

      with their daughter

      Though they did not think about Euclid

      or trigonometry

      ----

      *Told to me by the New York woman involved. Thankfully I have forgotten her name though I should remember his.

      Velvet

      It all begins with me, Vivienne said

      "With my sumptuous lips

      With my luscious skin

      velvet smooth

      velvet within velvet

      But what is skin without touch?

      Follow my path to ecstasy

      The Valley of the Moon will encompass you

      Taste my sumptuous lips

      Float in the darkness

      Seek in the void"

      Softly My Friend

      He stuttered as he began to speak

      Instinctively I stretched out my arm

      and put my hand on his shoulder

      I listened with what I thought

      was an neutral look on my face

      Though really it was a reassuring look

      The 49ers** lost, he said

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