Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Carla Schwartz gave an amazing live reading on Wednesday. You really should buy her books. I experimented with this week's Crouton. I took the barest of notes on the same pad of paper I used to write out the open mic list. Mostly single words. Barely a phrase.
No going back. No recording of the night other than spots with Carla, which I haven't revisited yet.
I hope to post one of those videos of Carla soon, as the product below doesn't do the night justice. It's getting late in the morning and I have other things I need to do.
My week doesn't end until Sunday night. Maybe I'll catch up with some of you then. Thanks for reading.
A Misanthrope's Résumé
Founded shopping cart quartet
in South's Andrew Square after
Played Sitting Bull, Al Jolson
in the same play, used white face
for Jolson. Open one night.
Took role as Apollo in silent film,
Great Dictator ripoff, playing
with inflatable moon. No sequel.
Spent year on hill figuring out
why purple flowers were safe,
not a gateway drug to blue buds.
Legal aide to wandering faith
healer. Wrote letters to angles
asking for their compliance.
Victorian medic for reemerging
diseases. Went door to door
telling people they lacked funds.
Wrote book suggesting baby
names after types of rocks.
Lawsuit by Micas thrown out.
Invented roleplaying game:
What You Would Do if the
Nazis Came. Bricks not included.
Human bear trap. Urinated in
center of forest, kept grizzlies
away from paying nature lovers.
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| So glad I can showcase someone else's writing. |
Special thanks to Chris Fitzgerald, David Miller, Angelo D'Amato, Jr., Robert Hayes, Hannah and Carla Schwartz.
1 comment:
Cool poem. Thank you for a wonderful night
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