Jim Carroll, best known for the film adaptation of his autobiographical book The Basketball Diaries, was also an accomplished poet and punk. His last volume of poetry, Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997, was published eleven years before his death, though he hardly stopped creating in the time between.
Poem Pay homage to the sorrows Make your sadness graceful If possible Your confessions, as well Elucidate it all. It is right there Like a stone Half ocean smooth Half-jagged by the shoreline's Earth and wind
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