On Monday Jill Ann Maybe had asked Marc Brandeis to host her open stage at the Café Sopra Sotto because she couldn’t make it. But Marc called me earlier that day to say he was sick and asked me if I would host for him and so I said yes. It went well and I debuted a new song “The Princess and the Pea Happy Song”.
Most of the regulars were there except for Paul Goldberg who had become reluctant to come. Later Vito the owner asked me how things were going and I thought I’d ask him to ease back on Paul. Vito had been critical of Paul’s poetry because he thought he portrayed Italians in a bad light. But Vito’s response to my request was something like, “That’s it! I’m done with you poets! There’ll be no more poetry readings here!” I had to break it to Jill that I’d killed her event. Later I heard that Vito was so irritable because he was addicted to cocaine.
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