Suddenly it's another Monday, and it occurs to me that next Monday, October 2, is Poets Monday at Linneman's Riverwest Inn, and I'm the featured poet. If I don't let people know, no one will know!
When I perform with other poets and musicians, I have between ten and twenty minutes. On the 2nd, however, I have all the time I care to use between 9 PM and 10 PM. I have to figure this out. I'd rather leave the audience wanting more than leave them wanting less.
The feature is always preceded by an open mic. If you want to try out a new poem or an old one, your first poem or your last one, here's your chance. Sign up at 7:30, open mic at 7:45, I'm at 9, and Linneman's is at 1001 E. Locust, one block west of Humboldt. Tim Kloss is emcee. Cover charge is $3.
Here are some poems I might perform, and here's one I'll definitely perform:
SATSUNMON
I wake up and it's the next day
Then I wake up and it's the next day
Then the NEXT day
No day Will stay
I wake up
Sun day Sun down
Monday Mon done
Tuesday Has to go No two Tues in a row
No two Tues No tutu,
I dance through Time
And it's Wednesday Wed once
Then Thursday Thirsts away
Into Friday No more fried eggs
Sat day No more sat fat
Saturday Sun
Mon, one more Mon Day
One more Mon Th,
Jan Feb Mar Ape May Ju Ju
Aug Sep Oc Nov Dec, gone, too
One more MON TH
One more MON Day
One more MOM ENT, one more MOM ENT
Million moments marched away
Million moment march
Sun mon tuesday wednesday thurs
Friday saturday sun
I wake up
And I've lived too long
To die young.
Suzanne Rosenblatt © 2003
