Black Flag, 1981

Henry Rollins, ca. 1981. Source: http://blogs.indiewire.com/twhalliii/previewing_park_city

what is more punk rock than

passing out with only the offgassing

of the dozen sweaty strangers closest

to breathe and only their bodies

holding you up from the broken glass

blooming across the beer stuck floor

that carry you a plastic bag in the tide

until a shove sends you falling awake

into the air impossibly still moving outside

the mosh pit and stumbling in the vastness

of the noise until you realize it is

your own scream and that it is utter joy