Third time this morning I have written the word "appropriate"

I want the poetry reading to appropriate the form of the rock show. The dark stage crowded with abandoned instruments, strangely curated background music pumping in from somewhere as the crowd gathers and mills and [im]patiently waits. The obligatory walk offstage after the “last song” followed by the obligatory raucous applause from the audience followed by the miraculous spontaneous return of the band to the stage to perform the last and best song of the night.

TESTIMONY (Rez.)

THE NORTH

"The horse was used to the city and gentle.
He had often stood near the door of his owner
in the business part of the city, unhitched,
with drays and other vehicles constantly passing.
He had life, was restless and high-strung, fancy and stylish,
but quite sensible;
would pick up your handkerchief
and at his stall fondle you.
Under the saddle he was hard to handle
but in harness was tender of mouth
and easily managed:
he had been driven up to--and past--a locomotive
at a crossing
and had gone quietly, attached to the buggy,
with a railroad train passing from behind."

C.R.E.A.M.

Acquiring paper. Transforming paper. Duplicating paper. Exchanging paper. Eliminating paper.

A little ditty from the producers who brought you BRUISED DICK...

BEST POSSIBLE CASSINGLE

intent on sprucing up our image
wore a hole through the fig leaf
momma always said: messy sheets
messy head. More regulatory power, please
I should know better than to fade over time
add "science" models to my arsenal at hand
"don't get high here," he said, "it musses my
bedroom"--an asymmetric treatment
of bold calls gone down the wrong entry

hatch. I should know better than to ask
the vegan with psychosexual issues
which way is the best way to go raw
she just tells me "wrap it up or lap
it up"--aka get icky on the tiger hide
but the days of see it / eat it are gone
the way of the solo cassingle, you

hear me? the days of see it / eat it are gone

THINGS TO INCLUDE IN YOUR [POETICS] STATEMENT

Other significant experiences.

It is advisable not to provide a "laundry list" of personal problems and unresolved conflicts.

THINGS TO DO IN MY "FREE" TIME

Write an Apps-style essay on Clarence Carter's "Getting the Bills (But No Merchandise)" and Destiny Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills"

THINGS TO DO IN ANNE'S ROOM

Now I'm going to do it

"Why listen to my gut when I could listen to thousand of guts?" says Fitterman.