When I got to the Staten Island Mall yesterday there was a huge line of people waiting on line, overnight, to buy the new Michael Jordan sneakers. People wonder why occupy wallstreet did not work, it's because most of the people in this country are complacent and satisfied with the current situation. If you want to get people to change you don't shout out a bunch of cute slogans or take away their rights, you take away their sneaker choices......you'll see this country change.......
goodbye goodbye blue monday...
Read some poems yesterday at "Goodbye Blue Monday" in Brooklyn. It was one of Puma Perl's DDay production readings. It included Jane Lecroy, Aimee Herman, AI Firefly and yours truly. There was some weird energy there but all the artists shined in there own way.....Aimee Herman read a great long poem about "going down" which made me wish she was straight just for one night. Mrs. Lecroy has a vocal range of a phoenix rising and than crashing into a field of dead lillies and i could have been better. Lost my breath a few times but which one of us in the poetry community hasn't?
Whisperin' to the wind we await your call
your poems your monologues your sunsets your ability to pen to page and rise again
through that in which we find you
the most.
It's hard knowing where to begin because you're never quite sure where it ended. This bold new venture Jane, Brant, George, and myself are undertaking already feels so family like with Kat Georges helping with logo design and other friends helping set up our website it feels bigger than that and wider and larger as it feels as if we've all grown together as writers through our travels and we've made so many new friends that it feels great to be able to share this new press with you and hopefully let your art and your craft shine through.
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