We cornered happiness in the back of the alley behind the pub Ambivalence and we said “stick Em up.” But happiness was quicker in the draw and shot us in the leg. After physical therapy we hung up fliers around town: Happiness, we’re coming to getcha, ya hear? “Happiness quivered in its boots” was how we…
The Ballad of The Mosquito and the House Fly
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Constipated With Love
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The Times They Are Changing Musically
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Come gather round. Wherever you roam. Admit it: The waters around you have grown. Keep your eyes wide. The chance won’t come again. Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. Don’t criticuze what you can’t understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly again’. Please get out of the new on…
A Great Storytelling Game for Children and Rabble Rousing Rum Drinkers
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We were having a meeting (because you know, we had a conference table at the after-after party in Toronto, so why not) when the game emerged from the cockroach corner of our minds and spread through our veins until Storyawesomein, the neurotransmitter responsible for storying telling, became strong with us. This could be one of those had-to-be-there…
Ode of Lamentation to Season 3 Episode 9 of Game Of Thrones
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Thank You TBEX For the Gift of Squirrels Playing Banjos
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Bushwick Poetry Submissions Open
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Where would Jack Kerouac live today if he was still bouncing around New York? Answer: Bushwick. Obviously… Those who live or spend time in the area have noticed: Bushwick right now is NYC’s latest front of exciting new and emerging artists. From music, to art, poetry and prose, Bushwick is a place of dedicated artists toeing the…
New York’s People Filled Nights
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Tumaini
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Tumaini –– (Swahili Verb) Hope, to want something to happen. Here, where hope is tumaini are animals everywhere, everywhere animals. Horses on the cigarettes. Rhinos on the matches. Water buffalo nickels jingling around in your lizard stamped coin purse. Do you have a rhino to light my horse? Animals as currency. You never forget the elephants…