my brandt gallery opening cookie fortune: YOU STAND IN YOUR OWN LIGHT. MAKE IT SHINE. i do, and will, “the good lord willing and the creek don’t rise.” (old hank williams saying).
kathy-wife-for-life & i leave the country in 22 days. goodbye cleveland, hello spain – you’ll not see our like again.
tho now it looks to be 1 month england, 1 month netherlands, 2 months spain – then on to eastern europe to circumvent the western european visa laws. like to see lithuania because their capital city vilnius has a statue of frank zappa in the town square… that’s as unsquare as square can be.
cleveland has been good to me and for me. ArtCrimes was born here in 1986 – 21 issues ago. it might die here as well. i came to cleveland for another man’s wife, and i’m leaving with a wife of my own.
cleveland gave me daniel thompson, jim lang, maj ragain, and way too many cool creative folks to list… most are in the 500+ list of ArtCrimes contributors online at AgentOfChaos.com. my one regret is leaving the new group of young and not-so-young poets (like you jack mcguane and steve goldberg) recently met thru The Literary Cafe’s monthly 2nd thursday reading.
been almost 2 weeks not smoking grass – and i seriously miss it, even with the occasional marijuana brownie. t’ain’t the same . . . body high versus mind high – same dichotomy as the old ecstacy vs lsd. so i’m down to drinking way too much tanzanian peaberry coffee. you chose your toxins and you takes your cancers.
glad kathy started this blog. i’ll be back at this address a lot more often with more down n dirty unslick comedy schtick.
seize you on the down size. leave you with this goodbye poem from jim lang:
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gratuity
a crook namecalled sbsmith / came to town & layed down a spliff / crimes turned to art / & he gave all us a starring part / now cleveland’s done saved / loneranger weds & scenes fade / onword anon & forthwith / ~ langwages to smyths
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