just hibernating.
Sorry about the column, just don’t have it in me this week.
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I watched the Worcester Slam team send off tonight.
I’ve been on two teams. We did ok.
Worcester’s been to finals once. (I wasn’t on that team.)
We’ve had amazing poets from Jack McCarthy to Seren Divine to Sou MacMillan to Bill MacMillan to Sean Shea to Kyria Abrahams to Lea Deschenes and Dave MacPherson and Corrinna Bain and Dawn Gabriel and Gary Hoare and Lia Klunk and all sorts of other folks you may or may not know over the years…and if I forgot anyone crucial, I’m sorry…
Whatever Worcester’s slam record looks like, it’s always been one of the two or three best poetry teams in the competition every year. Period. Teams that won the whole shebang, that didn’t deserve to be recognized for their poetry (yup, I said it), were nowhere near being as good as we have been, year in and year out.
And yeah, I’ll stake my life on that.
So let me say this, with a sincere nod of the head to all of us from past years and a sincere statement that I mean no disrespect by saying it:
This is the best Worcester Slam Team ever.
Period.
It’s like watching a machine in action with strong, wild, quirky, well written stuff.
I could care less how they do in St. Louis. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t do that well, simply because they’re going to be so fucking different no one will know what to do with them.
But I hope they have fun, and I hope you go see them, because they are amazing.
Dark Matter 
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
plus, looking at the list you’ve named, and yourself included on that list, can’t say I really rate, to be honest, but I was just really chiming in to say that I was always proud to be on Worcester’s team, and that, yes, we always DID seem to be markedly different than anyone else…..
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
plus, looking at the list you’ve named, and yourself included on that list, can’t say I really rate, to be honest, but I was just really chiming in to say that I was always proud to be on Worcester’s team, and that, yes, we always DID seem to be markedly different than anyone else…..
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
plus, looking at the list you’ve named, and yourself included on that list, can’t say I really rate, to be honest, but I was just really chiming in to say that I was always proud to be on Worcester’s team, and that, yes, we always DID seem to be markedly different than anyone else…..
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
plus, looking at the list you’ve named, and yourself included on that list, can’t say I really rate, to be honest, but I was just really chiming in to say that I was always proud to be on Worcester’s team, and that, yes, we always DID seem to be markedly different than anyone else…..
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
plus, looking at the list you’ve named, and yourself included on that list, can’t say I really rate, to be honest, but I was just really chiming in to say that I was always proud to be on Worcester’s team, and that, yes, we always DID seem to be markedly different than anyone else…..
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:24 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
not a prob, Tony, it’s been such a long time since I’ve been associated with anything worcester, you know…
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:24 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
not a prob, Tony, it’s been such a long time since I’ve been associated with anything worcester, you know…
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:24 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
not a prob, Tony, it’s been such a long time since I’ve been associated with anything worcester, you know…
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:24 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
not a prob, Tony, it’s been such a long time since I’ve been associated with anything worcester, you know…
August 3rd, 2004 at 10:24 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
not a prob, Tony, it’s been such a long time since I’ve been associated with anything worcester, you know…
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
Re: Awwwww, Tony!
Break a lizard leg, Raptile.
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
Re: Awwwww, Tony!
Break a lizard leg, Raptile.
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
Re: Awwwww, Tony!
Break a lizard leg, Raptile.
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
Re: Awwwww, Tony!
Break a lizard leg, Raptile.
August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 am
Re: Awwwww, Tony!
Break a lizard leg, Raptile.
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:44 am
Awwwww, Tony!
I shall give you sucha beeeeeeeeg kiss when next I see you!!!!!!!!
Honestly, coming from you, these words of praise are so great because I know you don’t give b.s. praise, nor suffer fools gladly (which does bring up a question re: our friendship, but we can take that up later….)
Thanks. You fill me with confidence for St.Louis.
ryk
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:44 am
Awwwww, Tony!
I shall give you sucha beeeeeeeeg kiss when next I see you!!!!!!!!
Honestly, coming from you, these words of praise are so great because I know you don’t give b.s. praise, nor suffer fools gladly (which does bring up a question re: our friendship, but we can take that up later….)
Thanks. You fill me with confidence for St.Louis.
ryk
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:44 am
Awwwww, Tony!
I shall give you sucha beeeeeeeeg kiss when next I see you!!!!!!!!
Honestly, coming from you, these words of praise are so great because I know you don’t give b.s. praise, nor suffer fools gladly (which does bring up a question re: our friendship, but we can take that up later….)
Thanks. You fill me with confidence for St.Louis.
ryk
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:44 am
Awwwww, Tony!
I shall give you sucha beeeeeeeeg kiss when next I see you!!!!!!!!
Honestly, coming from you, these words of praise are so great because I know you don’t give b.s. praise, nor suffer fools gladly (which does bring up a question re: our friendship, but we can take that up later….)
Thanks. You fill me with confidence for St.Louis.
ryk
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:44 am
Awwwww, Tony!
I shall give you sucha beeeeeeeeg kiss when next I see you!!!!!!!!
Honestly, coming from you, these words of praise are so great because I know you don’t give b.s. praise, nor suffer fools gladly (which does bring up a question re: our friendship, but we can take that up later….)
Thanks. You fill me with confidence for St.Louis.
ryk
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:37 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
Ack! I knew I’d forget someone. Sorry, Rich…
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:37 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
Ack! I knew I’d forget someone. Sorry, Rich…
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:37 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
Ack! I knew I’d forget someone. Sorry, Rich…
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:37 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
Ack! I knew I’d forget someone. Sorry, Rich…
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:37 am
Re: on having been a worcester slam team member
Ack! I knew I’d forget someone. Sorry, Rich…
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:25 am
on having been a worcester slam team member
let me just say that I agree here with you. it’s always this way with worcester – it was like that when I was on, back in the day (as the young folk say)
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:25 am
on having been a worcester slam team member
let me just say that I agree here with you. it’s always this way with worcester – it was like that when I was on, back in the day (as the young folk say)
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:25 am
on having been a worcester slam team member
let me just say that I agree here with you. it’s always this way with worcester – it was like that when I was on, back in the day (as the young folk say)
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:25 am
on having been a worcester slam team member
let me just say that I agree here with you. it’s always this way with worcester – it was like that when I was on, back in the day (as the young folk say)
August 2nd, 2004 at 10:25 am
on having been a worcester slam team member
let me just say that I agree here with you. it’s always this way with worcester – it was like that when I was on, back in the day (as the young folk say)