Northwest SPoken Word LAB!

Bothell Library

April 5, 2000

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If all you see is what you know,
never believe what the con man says
because this is the now of nowhere, the
here of the ins and outs of the weaver's threads

threads shimmering in a tapestry of
vibrant sound of fear for the clump of horses I couldn't
hear what I sing to, and cannot share--
sing only when we knew he could hear the
laughter is a big
fat until she

lost dog is howling painfully at
the dull glint of an angry woman's eye
dries your childish tears
of joy of play with and of the
other ways have oft been tried
resulting in and everlasting cycle of life and
death.

--An Exquisite Corpse exercise

More Exquisite Corpse exercises



One shameless
dishwasher
expectorates
One putrid
mammoth.
The dreamy
mountain goat
contemplated
our blended
painting.
a light
pressure cooker
contemplates
one parked
automobile
The pock-marked
serenade
directs
a dangerous
Jennifer
Their hurried
creation
prioritizes
the shivering
conundrum
An ubiquitous
policeman
ringing
the fifty-five
enlightenment.

Troublesome times, these
Not
with evil intent, but intent
benevolent gifts that clearly ring out with
willingness to take a chance and open my heart
to my slave the envelope
lies everyday when I asked her what
she is worried about
him. Her in wet soft fur
Rejoice to the heavens
and universe with my brain screams in
unison I sang tho I did not
believe, and you will see, everything there is to
me, not you or the trees, me.
If you say what you see and give what you
mean and lowdown dirty blues
blues, baby, I just singin' the blues.

--Yet another Exquisite Corpse

And the Creativity goes on...


who gave you the ability
with a graceful sort of
laugh out loud, and feel the joy run like
syrup so sweet and sticky only mother
could have been somebody, instead I
gotta have it here and now Batman

Batman, a brooding hero, or is he that
shining
is the armor that charges my
blindside, sighted, barely knowing where and
with whom we chose to live our lives with
forever more is not the name of
that day

she loved having company around when

she is the woman I love to fear, I call her dear remember the dreams of other
lives that live.



The clock runs backwards
until it rolled back into my lotion craving
hands upon the chocolate
cake and cookies, heaped together in holy
matrimony, the certain death that
makes the fakery mistaken, makes
the music of my saxophone sweet and low

low down dirty dealer, not fit to shine
my
life in the hands of fear what will be deaths choice this
year and dreams well spent, but chasing
endless search for that one person
longing for the taste of Starbucks
coffee was

her car blew up to blew up to smithereens
and she
looked around, her thoughts unsound yet life abounds
inside the many dreams.


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