foto by smith
tonight’s our first american poetry reading as featured readers since mid 2006. we’ve memorized 33 poems and will both stand at the mic bouncing back and forth each reciting one poem at a time. our back and forth changes the pacing, plays with the potential reasons why one poem follows another, and keeps the audience less bored. and reciting from memory allows us to look at each person and see how each poem goes over. should be a gas.
here’s one of mine for tonight.
Sold American
We’re born in blood, raised in flesh
In Ragnarok n roll Armageddon
So let’s go let’s go let’s go go Sell American
For the red, white, black and blue
Schrodinger’s cat is dead, perhaps
And we but lie, lie dreaming
This tit for tat means this this ain’t that
No matter what the ragweeds weaving
My Little Bo Peep’s down eating her sheep
With Darwin doubtless her handle
Your Little Boy Blue’s sniffing glue
While cooking his spoon over candle
So drink a drink for all that hasn’t happened
Bleed in need for the all that never will
3 cheers for the crippled, the misbegotten
All hail politicians fingers in the till
foto by smith