mentula

Just for the Hell of it here is a list of jobs I have had over the years

Lawn mower
7/11 clerk
Pizza restaurant lackey
movie theater janitor
Tomato picker (for purposes of analysis}
Fly raiser (yes, raising house flies in an insectory)
dairy/feedlot/orchard and field checker (for insect pests)
Actor (not proud of this)
top 40 dj/announcer
Radio News department director
Country music dj...
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I try never to write about my trade (I'm a mortician), but I felt this was compelling and that I could hide identities well enough to make it work. So here goes (after my standard warning)

DANGER! POETRY ALERT! A POEM IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!

NEXT OF KIN

"I can't let you you in," I told the woman at the doorway of the funeral home....
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So the other day, I'm walking downtown with a young poet named Lor, when some drunks call out to me

"What's up with the red suspenders?" (they are kind of my trademark).

"They keep my pants from falling down," I called back without slowing down.

But they were not satisfied yet.

"Do they mean you killed a man?"

"Not with the suspenders."

After much evilness, I have returned...I have missed you all sooooooooo much. More to follow

It seems to me there are far too many half or partial connections to other people. While I understand the need for self-protection and, of the people in one's life, the vast majority will remain at arms length (or further), nevertheless by being complete open, honest and even vulnerable to the important people in one's life it allows bad situations to become growing experiences. i.e....
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I'm gonna be in Oakland this thursday at Tourettes without Regrets. It is the bigest Spoken Word show on the left coast. Come out if you can. and get there early as they always sell out.

heres the info
http://www.oaklandmetro.org/metro_calendar6.html

I have been staying in Chico, California for some months now. As many of you know Chico (and Chico State University) is known as a party town. There have been several "incidents" at fraternities here, including a few hazing deaths.

or as one bar doorman put it to me:

"This town has killed more Greeks than Thermopylae"

hey...I gonna be at "Tourettes Without Regrets" in Oakland this coming thursday. I am probably slamming.

Anyway, more info later.

So last night was my weekly open mic. It's just a Spoken Word night. Nothing special, no features no great act other than what people bring in with them.

But last night was very cool. A very full house and at least two-thirds of the people there were not connected to one of the poets. They had just heard that my show was very cool...
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I have been incredibly busy writing of late. I have at least 8 new ideas (one of which could only be a novel so it will go on the back burner for now).

I want to do a story about cows, I don't know what I just want to.

But I'm working on my "Chaos Woman" poem, one of the lines is.

"She'd been fifty-one...
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