Terrific night at the Dallas Slam

Like the subject line says…

The open mike was excellent. There’s a cat there named Sh-Boom who does some fun wordplay stuff — don’t always love the subject matter, but it’s well done and usually pretty funny.

A guy named Javier did a love poem that had hearts melting all over the audience, including mine.

Corbet Dean was the feature, and his two sets were great. His love poem trilogy was a nice departure. He’s a hell of a performer, of course, and tonight it shone through.

I read one piece in the open mike, doing “The Radioactive Artist” by request. I was struck and amazed, as always, by finding people in the audience who knew the poem before hearing me read it. I’ll never get used to that.

The slam was also quite good, and was won by Colin Gilbert who completely deserved the win. His MS poem is a new favorite of mine.

At the end of the night, I did “Mission Statement” which fulfilled a dream of mine. The Dallas slam has used the poem often in the past and pretty much everyone in the room knew it, so getting to read it in a room that’s made it a staple was a humbling and wonderful experience. It’s nice to know that you’ve touched people with your work, especially people you’ve never met.

Now to bed — got to train in the AM (setting up the room at 6AM!) and then off to Denver in the PM to do it all again. Whee!

God, I miss being home.