76th of 150 hours, 44 hours away

Light Lucifer Lost

O listen now thou mad, thou meek
Receive and mourn these words oblique
Hear me – for I, Lucifer, speak

God’s impotent envy me from heaven hurled
Manward toward this god forsaken world
Where you in reward were Eden expelled
And I, once majestic, upon my belly felled

So I reigned in hell in favor a god
Forever, until upon me science trod
Then even from hell was I disbelieved
And from formal evil my duty relieved

Now no heaven holds atomic aplomb
Nor profits in neutered gamma ray tomb
Knowing crucified wish is unworkable womb.

— Steven B. Smith, 1989

Read this poem this morning at the “Snoetry II: a World Record Winter Wordfest – 150 hours of poetry” event currently going on at Jim’s Coffeehouse & Cafe down at 2 Kerstettor Way in Elyria, Ohio.

Snoetry’s in their 76th of 150 hours now, only 44 hours from breaking Kansas City’s continuous poetry reading record of 120 hours set last year. We’re entering endurance poetry territory here.

Snoetry hosts John Burroughs and Dianne Borsenik are looking for more readers to keep it going 24 hours a day for the next three days. You can check for open spots and see who’s reading when at crisisblog.crisischronicles.com/2011/01/29/schedule-of-poets-during-snoetry-2-in-elyria.aspx. For updates or contact, try their FaceBook accounts: John at facebook.com/jesuscrisis or Dianne at facebook.com/dianneborsenik.

All 150 hours are being cybercast via ustream.tv/channel/snoetry-ii-a-winter-wordfest—150-hours-of-poetry—official.