a blank slate
fell from the roof
and struck me
in the back of the head.

i woke up after being dead
for a long while
and pulled myself up,
first one knee, then the other,

and then keeled over and
staggered up again,
then reeled over
to a convenient stump.

sitting there,
i had the irresistable desire
to write something about
my shattered head

but i found that after all
i felt too good to bother with anything
right then, other than to say
OW, and rub my wounds, and look around

for a stick or something i could use
to scratch on the slate later
when the pain was a memory and i needed
to make something out of it.

so don’t give me a hard time…woke up to pee, now headed back to sleep.

first off: give imsonshyne a hearty happy birthday!!!!

then, just wanted to do a quick update…

sunday:
boston show at the rack: nonexistent. no promo, no crowd. passed out flyers with thisrabbit and allan_inc and still no crowd.

ah well. it was in a bar that features ersatz amateur yuppie pole dancing, so whattya want anyway?

middleboro show: this was great. a lot of older folks and a lot of kids at an all weekend arts festival in a little almost Cape Cod town. a group of older poets, including me, did a group feature on themes of remembrance and healing. lots of fun, and nice to get out and see a lot of the not at all usual faces.

the asylum. what can i say? this is the home plate for me; if i miss here it hurts a lot. the home venue is always the hardest to play, and i wanted to do it justice…i think i did, and i did it with almost entirely a new set — the oldest poems i did went back only 18 months or so. my previous post give the set list.

it’s time for great changes. this sealed it for me…

it was also time to say goodbye to Debbie Middleton, who will be in her new house outside of Albuquerque in less than two weeks! Bye Deb…hope to see you sooner rather than later.

today: long day at the office. tomorrow: the same. i won’t be updating much if at all…so if you’re in the area i remind you AGAIN that buddy wakefield will be reading in Uxbridge on Wednesday. dammit, come support our efforts to bring art to the small towns…

over and out. thanks again to the people who turned out everywhere to support me and all the others who were out doing it to it yesterday…