S.F. --> L.A. Road Poem

by me and my boys (Steve Orth and John Sakkis) unawares








Pubes are a present
pubes are a privilage
suspicion is your game (your honesty's to blame)
Viper Room
I'll have a French Racetrack
horse tranqs & red wine
Remember guys, 2 rootbeers each, that's it
East Bay extends to Livermore
Benicia, Vallejo, that's North Bay
stoked, super stoked
get some headshots
book a commercial, work on getting a SAG card
the jukebox affect--playing music you know
Where the fuck are we?
I can't imagine living there
Can you imagine living there?
I can't imagine living there
but these fucking hills are beautiful
This is the Altamont pass
Power pop (Cheaptrick)
Are you equating [redacted] people from Oakland
w/ Uruk-Hai?
That's what that girl said right before we [redacted]
write that shit down
pub cheese--it's pretty fuckin' sweet
yer gonna love it
Rotten Robbie

Cowsies!
Cowsies!
Giant clouds!
Sky....
Yosemite! Yosemite! Yosemite!
Nat'l Park!

I got a jug a dat
"No water, no jobs"
La Pinocha--pussy sweet bread
work that clit

Heart full of love for you
brothers
kissing cousins
my ambiguous and multiple thought--all at once
all at once
low flying clouds
rocking the hills
like twilight zone
turn to smog
the atmosphere--flattens
we're winding through
workable line
it deals w/ you
I can see the sauce
I want the sauce
all down my mouth/chin
like a guzzler
the shock of persimmon in everyday life
winding up w/ a mouthful
when you thought you were just eating fruit

Heck yeah, the lights
neighboring neighborhoods
Is Glendale a neighborhood or a city in L.A.?
Ok, we don't have to listen to The Doors
the whole time but it has to stay L.A.
Guns n' Roses, Beck
OK
Totally
Is Bon Jove L.A.?
No, that's New Jersey

LA Reading w/ JCS @ PRB

Check it OUT!

John, Steve and I are taking off for L.A. on Saturday. John and I are reading at The Poetic Research Bureau at 4pm on Sunday. You can expect a report and a road poem upon our return. Things I'm looking forward to:

Hijinks! Celebrity sightings! Cat petting at Mathew Timmons' apartment! Late nights! Discussions of psychoanalytic theory with Mark Wallace and discussions of German film with Joseph Mosconi! The possibility of Steven Boyer and cocktails from tiny cups! Trying not to smoke amidst clouds of smoke! In n Out burgers! Getting head shots for Steve! Canoodling!

Anyway, I'm excited.

Self Promotion Time: Smell Reading Series in L.A. Sunday Oct. 26

Please join us at the Smell at 6 pm Sunday, October 26 for a reading by:

Erika Staiti and Lindsey Boldt from San Francisco

Oni Buchanan from Boston

bios:

Erika Staiti is feverishly archiving. You can view some of her handiwork at saidwhatwesaid.com. A new document is in the works; take 3,785 guesses what it is. She's from Long Island, spent 4 yrs in Binghamton, 4 yrs in Portland OR, currently living in North Oakland, Ca (3 yrs and counting).

Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco where she is studying to become a migrant cultural-worker. You can find her poems in/at Vanitas, shampoopoetry.com, Try! Magazine, the-press-gang.blogspot.com, Peaches and Bats, and WOO. You can read her soul-belchings on Ridiculous Human Things blog. She is currently working on a chapbook of "Titty Poems" Ask her about it.

Oni Buchanan is the author of Spring, selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series, and published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. Oni is also a concert pianist, has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano teaching studio.

location:

THE SMELL
247 S. Main Street, between 2nd and 3rd St, downtown Los Angeles
(enter through the alley in the back--the alley is between Main and Spring, and is named Harlem Court)

time:

Doors open 6:00PM, reading starts approximately 6:30, everything should be wrapped up by 8:30.

fee:

$5 at the door, to go to the readers