Open Mic Wednesday- Reading Other Works

I am going to start a new project- I am going to read at least one or two poems from fellow poets I know, or have known at open mic. I attend two that allow poetry, and have been told there are a few more, but not really close- In New Jersey an hour from your house in bad weather is two hours, so I will see...

Go check out Poet/Writer/Teacher, Jessie Carty's 58 Inches(she got a shout out), as she posts poetry (v)blogs, and keeps up updated on information pertaining to the poetry scene and poetry writers.

I hope you enjoy my reading, but I do wish I could find someone to man the camera, as I am not so great with it at such a long distance (I could swear it was zoomed in closer than this is what I am trying to say).

Muse Monday 17- Voyeur

If you have ever worked in a professional kitchen environment, then you can relate to this rap piece I perform

Health Food Café
‘Kitchen Rant’

Morning drains, smell like sewage and shit
Scented candles, burn… surreal relief
pantry shelves filled with clutterenters the store police
she moves through door... the store... my mind
Preemptive remarks sounding like mutter.

(sing with rhythm )
   move the pans to the top
   from underneath the pots
   bare cabinets now leave
   wasted space to heave
   sweep up with the mop
   sling food around the juicer

Its m u s i c and n o i s e
Carrot, beet, celery, and apple hip hop

Front door opens, smiling faces
at any cost all ready to share
some check out today’s menubuying food products to repair

(sing with rhythm)
   maple salmon, BBQ beef, fake meats
   Caribbean grits, 3 kinds of soup
   salads of all kinds….
   carrot apple raisin, apple slaw
   crunchy raw brownies to finish it all

Lets regroup… purely all healthy cuisine

Here nor there… so what’s a little disorder
As long as we roll and bounce
Through the days short mortars
Sweeping around the change
Our work feeds the soul
Merits of this and that
With little technique, just more cooperative ingredients
But Monmouth of grief if not obedient
Covering and disguising what’s really going on…

(sing with rhythm)
   high rent and bad location, location, location
   too many chairs and not enough tables
   damn to no oven and no menu fabrications

What’s good is the food, company present, and regular creations
Counter space seating, and talk of the nation
To the end of the day, dishes piled high
Food splattered aprons, needy floors and counters

All good, because 'I' just let sleeping dogs lie.

- E, 2008 ©

FSO- Friendship Bridges

Once again I am taking a theme on our shoot out and twisting it to fit my photos. I have met some of the nicest people through blog, and hope to meet many more! The internet is a true bridge that connects us to people, places, and subjects we might not otherwise have known!

I had the opportunity to go into NYC and attend a wonderful book fair, The Rainbow Book Fair, and meet the most fabulous, friendly, and supportive 'Bryan Borland' fan club- Ann Marie (her daughter, a wonderful teenage boy they know, his parents, and another friend from New Jersey), Beth (Louisiana), Victor (a fan of the poetry), and his NYC contact (I apologize for lack of remembering all those others I met!). So many nice people!

In the attempt to interview Bryan, with his first published poetry book just out, 'My Life As Adam', we had a camera set up, but it went off after only two minutes of our wonderful fifteen minute talk about his journey as a poet, a gay man in Arkansas, and as well as our shared experience with loosing people in our lives that have given us this unique connection! I look forward to these new 'bridges' growing in so many ways all of you I met today!

Grovers Mill Coffe House Open Mic

Gosh, we are always are worst critic, but I seriously need to LOOSE WEIGHT!

I know, I know, just a lot more of me to love...I gotta get healthy is that better?

Okay that felt better, now enjoy!