 ladyfest – foto by smith my little lady is slowly, discontinuously walking around this morning with squinched up eyes and headache hangover pain. she had 4 glasses of wine yesterday, and she’s a two glass person at most. her pain takes me back to my drinking days and what i’m glad to miss. i’m in my 18th year of sobriety after bleeding to death from an alcohol-induced esophagus ulcer in 1991. i told her yesterday she would hurt today, but she said no, she never hurts. sometimes i wish i weren’t right. she’s sleeping it off, which is the best cure. i used to get up each work morning and move through my half gallon of cheap gallo blanc wine hangover every tuesday through friday morning – on mondays it was a full gallon of gallo hangover – and go to work. i’d spend each work morning programming through my hangover pain – felt so bad that writing computer code while waiting for the pain to dissipate was the best i could do. got a lot of code written. lady’s making a book of my poems from 1964 through 2008. titled Zen Over Zero, it contains 68 poems which span the last 44 years. should be available from Lulu.com in a couple days. she asked me to write a bio for it, which is one of the hardest things to do, so i consolidated my last few bios from myspace and TheCityPoetry.com and gave her this:
Here are some recent Smith bios.
Take your pick. They’re all lies, they’re all true. ~ ~ ~ Was born. Am living. Will die ~ ~ ~ I’m a fractal finding ambiance adjuster on the run from reality wandering the Earth having adventures with my beloved Lady. ~ ~ ~ Born in Bitterroot, raised on Paradise Prairie. Farm boy, car thief, Naval Academy, expelled for dope, high society marriage, armed robbery, jail, escaping the cops, illegal loft dweller, ArtCrimes, rat attacks, overdose, celibate, remarried, expat. ~ ~ ~ My life boils down to five facts: I’m Kathy Ireland Smith’s friend, collaborator, companion, and husband. I’ve been a poet 44 years, artist 43 years, ArtCrimes publisher 22 years, AgentOfChaos.com 6 years, Walking Thin Ice co-blogger 2 years. I’ve run from the cops 10 times, got away 9. My job is to show the sheep in the sheep pen there are better ways to live. I’ve learned there is but one law – Do as you would be done. ~ ~ ~ for those wanting more, there’s 3,500 pages of Smith art, poetry, reviews, history and friends at AgentOfChaos.com, plus a thousand blogs of our traveling adventures at WalkingThinIce.com. ~ ~ ~ Go thee, and suffer less  oaxaca street art – foto by smith |
hangovers
i don’t miss them at all
Hangovers are our friends. They remind us why we drink…(?)