On Tuesday I posed until 15:00 at Central Technical School. After work I went home and did some typing to prepare the Gumby Bible group poem to be read at my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage for the Gumby Bible’s first anniversary. Then as usual I used last week’s Gumby Bible poem as a prompt to compose a new poem that each week I referred to as the Commentary on the Gumby Bible. I left my place at around 19:00 and headed down to the Art Bar of the Gladstone Hotel where my open stage was held. I moved the keyboard into the main bar by myself because the co-owner of the Gladstone, Herbie Appleby wasn’t there like he said he would be. I carried the big screen TV behind the curtain into the old stage area of the Art Bar that was now being used for storage. I swept the floor of the Art Bar and then brought in extra chairs and tables. I figured out a new arrangement that would allow for up to 42 people.
When we kicked off the event I got Mary to read last week’s group poem and then I had Diana Scala read my commentary. Diana was our first featured poet, followed by John Margerm. I passed out some poetry by Angeline. Tom Smarda did a song and then he and I sang his song “Don’t Forget Resurrection”. Howard, Yuri, Matthew, and Brendan performed. Brendan Cahill did a great piece about all of us, calling me “The Lanky Lion” and Mary “The Big Mama”. I had each feature give some of their poetry to three other people for them to read and thereby give new perspectives on the works. I saw Adina to the bus stop and said goodnight rather than kiss her since she’d broken up with me.
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