Professor Beth Kuebler-Wolf reminded me this is World Poetry Day. Who knew? Anyway, cant argue with that. Here is fave from a Tony Award speech in 2008 where a dude just recited this poem by Louis Jenkins. I love this guys pose-poems. They speak to me. Backcountry by Louis Jenkins “When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc. Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side. If that isn’t to your taste you could join the revolution, wear an armband, carry a homemade flag tied to a broom handle, or a placard bearing an incendiary slogan. At the very least you should wear a suit and carry a briefcase and a cell phone, or wear a team jacket and a baseball cap and carry a cell phone. If you go into the woods, the backcountry, someplace past all human habitation, it is a good thing to wear orange and carry a gun, or, depending on the season, carry a fishing pole, or a camera with a big lens. Otherwise it might appear that you have no idea what you are doing, that you are merely wandering the earth, no particular reason for being here, no particular place to go.”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:46:41 +0000
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