PRIESTDADDY

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed' The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusu al in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her moth er, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, gui tar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him ap proved f...[Read more]