enjoy this Brian Looney writing
in the Scars Publications free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Punk Show
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Growling in the Cave
Brian Looney
The band doles out their noise: the repetitive speed, the plunking bass, the shredded fingers. The jostling heat, the foreign perspiration, the coursing energies. A fire burns in our flammable brains, spreading out from the stage and catching in the crowd.
Before me the circle pit rages, a vortex of human flesh: swirling and bobbing bags of meat upon the stomped and aching concrete. Some watch the figures from a distance, dancing their strange dance, aching that strange ache.
Trundling down the stairs into the arena, and it looks like a goddamn circus. They think they’re living it, but I’ve calculated their magnitude. I’m here for that raging power and nothing else.
We’ll raise our hackles until we’re growling in the cave. We’ll clench our fists until they crack. We’ll drink that drumbeat until it makes us vicious.
