Schwag

About the Book

Schwag because we're here together now schwag because it's alright schwag schwag at a bus stop in the stupid summer schwag the slutty exgirlfriend that keeps coming up in your dreams schwag because you don't know better yet schwag because that's what I can afford schwag schwag schwag because that's what's around ain't nothing between us but a joint & it's your turn to take a hit schwag, it's a lot like us, you know schwag because life is rough sometimes Schwag picks up where Young and Immortal left off, with the introspective poet Eugene and his mischievous muse Horace and their friend Miriam living up their early Twenties on the cusp of the Millenium on the East Side of Milwaukee. Schwag explores the questions of loyalty, addiction, the American Way, casual sex and obsessive love, honesty, meaningless hedonism and signifi cant bullshit. Schwag is not in Oprah’s book club. Schwag is the book you borrowed from the bad kid on the playground. Schwag is cheap workingman’s dope.

About the Author

dreamy tortured writer thirty-something forever young kinky hopeless romantic wine-drinking non-golfer dog-loving cat-person occultist secret society man student tutor school teacher artist traveler happy camper coffee addict tree-hugging libertarian stubborn pacifist conspiracy theorist Midwestern pisces poet son of a bitch recovering Catholic Gnostic Christian Taoist Deadhead Milwaukee Brewers fan sado-maso-hedonistic panty-sniffing motherfucker with a BA in English (Creative Writing) from UW-Milwaukee and some poems published in various big and small presses and many various other essays and novels still in the womb waiting to be baptized in print.