Sounds better than it is

Laboring in obscurity.

Sweeping

As in not. And I stick by that promise.

Stop being so religious

What
Do sad people have in
Common?

It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past

And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship.

What is the beginning of
Happiness?

It is to stop being
So religious

Like

That.

- Hafiz

Where they can't find me

Which is why I'm here now.

kept for posterity

Looking across the Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh.

Hiya! It might interest you to know that since I moved my ISP, server, and domain name registration the links to the podcast files no longer work. If you are interested in listening to the episodes, let me know. Otherwise there really is no point to keeping this blog up except that I can't bring myself to delete it. And that may happen one day.

7: graffiti graffito

I'm baa-aack! I know – it's been over a year. Thanks for waiting! Here's tonight's poem: graffiti graffito. I'm not sure what its about. Probably the creative process or poetry or the mushy mushy thing called life. Have a thought? Let me know!

There may be an mp3 later, or not.

Written and Recorded: August 2, 2007
Time: 1 min. 59 secs.

Addition: mp3 added November 2007

6: Old Home Week: 2

More of my unpublished poems from the 70's. WARNING: watch your drums. I do shout a bit on this one due to ranting about my dog-hating neighbor. Or is it just me he hates?

You can also watch this one.

Recorded March 19, 2006.

Music: none
Time: 10 min. 17 sec.

Note: the in-cast end credits list this as #5 but it is, indeed, #6.

Post Script: Since my server people won't update the server media definitions you are getting the m4v as text (unless you download it), and it's not showing up in iTunes. So here's an mp3 until that gets fixed ... and even after.

5: old home week

A collection of unpublished poems that I wrote between June 1969 and September 1970. I was a lot more inventive then, making up words and expressive forms without any regard to what English teachers told me was correct. Graduating from high school freed me to write.

Music: warming up the recorder (or block flute)
Time: 5 min. 14 sec.

4: Dog and Spider

Welcome to Episode 4! I've been prevented from casting by a bathroom renovation and illness. Actually, I don't really have a schedule. In this episode I read Dog and Spider which arrived September 17, 2005 and was finalized today.

Themes: Dogs are loyal and spiders make connections with long threads that you sometimes can't see until you walk through them.

Time: 3 minutes 37 seconds

3: i don't like choking

In this episode I read another poem that I wrote, most likely in 1998. I published it in 1999 in my ezine, shiftAlt. This poem emerged into words ready made. I just wrote it down. Technically, then, I didn't write it. I recorded it as it came through me.

I read it once in public to some friends. They really liked it. I've wanted to record and publish it since then. Now I have. I hope you like it, too.

Time: 7 minutes 37 seconds