Tag Archives: poetry

my life in public restrooms

This is me reading an excerpt from my autobiography, which is still in the making and will probably remain that way for at least a few more years.

me, reading to you.

Two-video blog of Erik reading “Tenth and Juniper”

cryptorchid

video post of short poem as youtubecast from the room of Erik, Jackson, and Santiago

Mission Street poetry thursday, friday, saturday night

I will be out on Mission Street reading at the spots indicated on the map in my venue post from last week.

opening night review

Here is a follow up on the threat to read out on Mission Street this weekend. The short story is I read out for about three and a half hours on Saturday night, made enough money to get ridiculously excited about but not enough to really buy anything, and had fun making a spectacle of myself.

venue

Today I slept through my own showtime but as I mentioned in LJ yesterday, I am going to try to start my Mission Street poetry series this weekend, weather permitting–meaning tomorrow night if it doesn’t rain so hard as to disintegrate the script. The map below shows where I’ve decided might be good place to [...]

sag mir was das war

sedimented against garroted mounts
iterate rheumatic warbirds although surely
defects are signal wishes
archaic riots

the myth of representationalism

sanitation engineers poke at dying embers left in the street or the broken stone embryology failed to account for the strings of epochs blown in burial notices

a lesser light

portable villianous art for rapt jailers
eviscerate appalled droves vital limbs–slaked felon
will fashion lucky furred hymns

types at flies

soldiered benignly
underground
cistern

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