Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup'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. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, this poem doesn't go up because it's ready, it goes up because it's Friday morning.
Terry Orlando Jones rocked the house on Wednesday night with the help of guest DJ Amina Gunn and guitarist/percussionist Joe P. I knew there was going to be too much to jot down, so I not only recorded parts of their set (including a jam with Black Byrd I wish I had gotten more of) but also took audio snippets of the open mic. It helped at least to make sure no one to left out. What to do with it all? Well, that was the challenge. It's up to you to judge if I was successful or not. That means hits, shares and all that. No, I won't be this shameless for the rest of the year.
I am so glad we had such a great night of music. Our musical guests took full advantage of our new home at the Assemblage gallery with its great acoustics. We simply have to do it again. I hope more people will come next time.
I should also mention that Terry, Amina and Joe will be performing the same set this Saturday as part of Dorchester Speaks. It starts at 2.00 PM at the Codman Square branch of the Boston Public Library.
Poem time. Thanks for reading.
Sit-In
Oliver Wendell Holmes implores us:
Save the USS Constitution! For without her,
