Shattered Wig #28

Shattered Wig #28
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Friday, January 30, 2015

A Reading At The Julie Fisher Publication Party For Skittering Thing

I just stumpled across this on that google device. Other than some WYPR The Signal recordings and "Readings From Nether Lips", one of my favorite recordings. Thank you Christophe Casamassima for putting it up on Box and thank you Julie Fisher for the great introduction and for that tango behind the Taco Bell in 1966.

https://app.box.com/s/62e905b6974e5b4484cd

Thursday, January 1, 2015

A Poem For Chris Toll by Richard Sober



for Chris Toll

An almost visible thin gray line
separates us. Sleep is more and less
what it is made out to be.
Sleep is the bed where we misplace
our words. It is the night
we forget to wake up.
A clown with a bomb
stands behind us the moment before
we invent a new letter. A wave goodbye
on the alien space station
where you are dressed like a boy
inside an ancient mind.
Your eyes are weighed down with the stones
of your serious solitude.
The ones with all the words
inside them, the ones where
the angry tones of prophets
always return to the people,
whoever they are.
You, too, are missing in action.
For you love is not somethiing to do.
It is somewhere to be.
Open all the time.

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Richard Sober is a wise, noble poet and painter who worked in the trenches of Baltimore next to comrade Toll in the '70s and '80s when Baltimore was at its wildest and woolliest. He now resides in Austin, but currently has a wonderful show of his paintings - which he drove here in a van across country - called "Borrowed Earth on exhibition at the Creative Alliance. Please go to see them and your heart will sing. http://www.creativealliance.org/events/2014/richard-sober-borrowed-earth


Dear Ganesh, please be gentle with us this year. Surely the world can not get more fragile. Wash us in poetry and music.