Tyler Dempsey

Consumption And Other Vices (2023) by Tyler Dempsey. Imagine you’re in a coffee bar, NYC, basement place with wall to wall smoke, berets all around, some cat tapping on the bongos while a pencil thin waitress ignores you in favor of the be-bopper reciting his latest lament on the plight of society. Or he might be talking a song of praise to the favors which the gods have bestowed upon him, us or everybody. He comes to the end of his prattle and there is a burst of unenthusiastic finger snapping and maybe an”outta sight” pronounced over his rendition.
Straight out of the 1950’s daddy-o, not out of Compton at all. This book is a mystery in more ways than one. The allusion of death and homicide detectives talking to hyped out youngers, a few with a little more than a faint remembrance of what reality is supposed to be, plays out like a hep-cats poetry for the masses. Like that of so many beat poets before, Mr. Dempsey can lose his audience in the haze of mists and the illusions he presents, but if you can find your way through to the true path, you will be rewarded, man.
But don’t set out on the path to enlightenment if you are not willing to suffer whatever fortunes you encounter on the way.
Can you dig it sister and brother?… (meer)