Was not bad at all. Small crowd, average age 50+. Some very nice work in the open.

My set was NOT typical — I stuck close to newer stuff and some more obscure pieces:

Open Mouth
Song Of the Twirling Accountants
Robert Johnson
I Need A Guitar
Mythology for Cats
Name
Tenochtitlan
American History
What You Call It
Political Art
DIY

I skipped my usual cover, which was going to be Susan McMaster’s “Against The War,” in favor of “DIY” in order to pick up on something I sensed in the open — some sense of quests for identity from a couple of people. It seemed to fit. In addition, this was a pretty savvy crowd poetically — didn’t see the need to push the importance of reading other people’s poetry.

I also had “Elephant Teeth” cued up, but ran out of time. Bummer.

Tomorrow night — um, actually tonight — it’s Jim’s Fall again at Gotpoetry Live! We’ll have the CDs and books and we’ll be doing two more poems besides the Jim set — “Snakes On A Plane” and a mystery poem…C’mon down and hang with us.