Tomorrow down in the Flats, 7 poet-music acts for a Sunday afternoon – MAD SING YOU II 2nd Annual poetrymusic Fest July 20, 2014, 1pm – 4pm a 21 and over show at Pat’s in the Flats 2233 W. 3rd St (bottom of Literary Hill) Cleveland, Ohio $5 cover charge.
Starring: Latex Menagerie (spoken word by Bree, Adam Brodsky & Russ Vidrick), Shelley Chernin, Jesus Crisis Ban/ne/d (poet John Burroughs), Tom Adams w/ Goggles Pisano, The Deep Cleveland Trio Band (dan smith, Morgan Ellington, Miles Budimir & Eric Anderson), Terry Provost (backing band, the Rickety Claque, featuring Dave Shaggy Snodgrass), and The Leftovers (featuring Steven Smith & Shawn Mishak) . . . and Lady will sing one song with me.
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Updike
Young Rabbit Angstrom
felled by casual fucking
and former glory.
– Smith 7.19.2014
Finally finished “Rabbit at Rest.” Now reading another by Updike – “S.”.
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Recorded this yesterday, a short talking urban blues, so to speak . . . click here to hear One Life to Live, Peter Ball music, mix and recording, me word and voice, or as Peter put it: Steven B. Smith – Vocals and Lyrics with The Planetary Extinction Orchestra.
One Life to Live (the song)
Am I running from the coming
of the fountain of afford?
Is the water getting wider
before we get to ford?
How’s the hide of hoarder
as he hoists his heavy load?
When the heck will this be paid for
as we stumble down the road?
I say sock it to em, sex it up,
add some color, bunny hop,
make it funky, do it down,
even clunky you can clown
defrown that upsidedown.
These are the questions lacking
in the running of day,
the personal people problems
per their portion of the pay.
We don’t have a lot of options
in the play or way of lay,
but then that’s not our business,
or at least that’s what they say.
I say sock it to em, sex it up,
add some color, bunny hop,
make it funky, do it down,
even clunky you can clown
defrown that upsidedown.
– Smith, 7.18.2014
foto by Lady K