A reading we are all familiar with, hosted by Dan Wilcox. The “featured poet” a group of students from St. Rose forced to take a performance class. The second event of the week that was standing room only. In keeping with the theme I wrote a mediocre poem describing the event…
A group of kids
high in the back of a class
that I’m not in
it’s almost as if
we never stop learning.
We are getting to know
Who can carry on
In the face
Of freckles.
The dirty secrets
Of poetry readings
As described by a dirty old man
How to draw an audience,
EE Cummings
Hosting
Knowing
To make the feature
A group of 15-20 people
Some of us depicting
And envisioning
Hell
Buildings disintegrating
People all disinterested
Painfully aware
Of their autism.
Museum exhibition poems
Music and videos
Clouds of different colors.
An endless amount of announcements.
Descriptions of different events
In the area
About literature
About guns
About balls
Simple poems
Simple rhymes
Can have the most powerful impact
Enough to draw you out of hell
Just in time for the feature
Who couldn’t decide on a name :
Getting’ Fierce or Gettin’ Fruity
They couldn’t decide
which sounded gayer.
Team Tall:
Lighter metaphors
Love poems
A lie
Two truths
And concerts I will never go to.
Sugarland is terrible.
Team Short:
Nostalgia
Houses we never grew up in
Hugs
Fathers
Elegies
Darker and slightly deeper
Than you would expect.
Team awesome;
I am…
A house
Packed
With lifetimes
Gimlets and title changes
Friendships that come with
More than you want them too
Team fierce force five:
Trees and their response
To you pleas
Climbing the Eiffel tower honestly
Dads and dream boys
That fall short.
A short break
10 minutes
During which we get hit
Up for money
Down for anything.
Kicking off the second half
With whatever the opposite
Of BANG is.
Counting
Lines
Lost and forgotten in the crowd
A packed house.
Standing room only.
