just a note:

Tonight was the first night in a long time where I hosted a reading with a mike and a signup list and got to be a hardass about time and goof around in front of an audience.

It was fun. A lot of fun.

Fun enough that I’m done arguing the Green Mill issue. Poetry counts, not the internal foibles of a subculture’s rules.

Besides, arguing the rules of slam is like trying to learn Klingon — entertaining for some folks, but of limited use in real life.