Do.Until.True.

Pedaluma Monday
My first piece at Losers and a cover of the fantatic Charles Getter of San Francisco. Few stage poems nail the joy of the simple like this one.

Six things I want to tell a Nigga

Likewise from Losers.

One of the fastest poems I ever wrote.

This one was caught soon after an encounter with a high schooler choking his girlfriend in the middle of the street. This was after a little staring session we we’re having after a similar kind of domestic violence “joke” he was playing. Typically, letting a young dude know he is seen is enough to get them to act as they should, but not this time. This time out of nowhere he grips the girl and slams her against the wall while she does kind of gasp laughs. I didn’t know what to do, but something had to happen. So I slapped him off her instinctively with no real plan of what to say. He looked me like I was crazy afterwards. He made no move to stop me or strike back, just stared at me. I mumbled something about this kind of thing beneath him, how he knew better then to play like this but in truth I was lost to where to beginning to explain how serious this thing he took for a game really was.

I walked around the neighborhood for near my whole lunch hour before stopping at a bench and writing this poem.

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad Part 2

From a recent slam at Loser’s Slam in NJ.

There is, incidentally, a tree of the knowledge of good and bad part 1. That one similarly plays with the line of the obscene and innocent. Or on the real, that one ACTUALLY does…while this is just sex as fun. That one….I don’t know if I’m gonna post that one…

My parent’s have computers. This is enough.

Another video from the do.until.true. Again, the show went great by the way. We had some great lighting going on considering the gallery space. Excited about getting things together for a bigger scale production next time.

A video interpretation of one of the poems to be preformed at Do.Until.True. chapbook release and one man show.

Inspired in equal parts by the in-process gentrification of my current residence in Fairmount and the ongoing f-cked-upness of my home streets of North Philly.

Show is on November 9th and 10th
A Poet’s Gallery 4510 Walnut
doors at 6:30. starts at 7.
See you there.

Potential Pieces of Modern Art Haiku from the 100,000 poets for change event last weekend.

JazzFace from last years Philadelphia Fuze Poetry Finals

At long last, images from a show with certain circuits featuring some of my visual poetry work. Don’t you know I still have yet to get those pieces back?