$14 subway, $18 door fee, $6 for a bottle of water = $38 open mic attended last night where we did not get a chance to read because they have the open mic slots limited to 10 and you have to get there an hour early to sign-up. that makes 3 non-open open-mics in a row for close to $100. the rats keep playing with us, experimenting, and london remains indifferent to our poetry desires.
this is unexpected because london was so nice to us our first trip here – last august we read at 4 open mics in 3 weeks, our first non-american audiences. past 10 months with neither readings nor poetry community have been hard for us – back in cleveland we’d hit 2-4 poetry venues each month. reading before a live audience is addictive, especially when you can see them sit up in surprise. it’s hard having a good show and no place to glow.
