May 2008
11 posts
cat saves railroad,what next polar bear ends... →
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Canoe Built From Disposable Chopsticks :... →
http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/10/03/captain-rob-ice-cream-stick-ship/
Ship made from popcicle sticks →
it’s raining and i am bored
poetry slam at the belmar thursday 9 pm
thurs 9 pm my favorite poet Jan Becker will perform be there
Jan Becker Binghamton's poet Laureate
Jan is one of my favorite people and a great poet ,below are a few of her poems that she recently read at the Belmar, I missed the show but won’t miss the next one. I hope you enjoy them because I sure did
Pissing On The Blarney Stone
Pissing on the Blarney Stone Jan Becker Leona sends me emails from Scotland. Where she is the modern model of femininity among the boys drinking whiskey in the bars. Her emails say she is starting to embrace the new culture of life from a backpack and youth hostels with dorm rooms crowded with armpits and nose hairs, falling asleep to a symphony of foreign snores. She is a gypsy again and she...
Kimmy Is Crying
Kimmy Is Crying Jan Becker I. Kimmy is crying Next to me in the Passenger seat because My eyes are tired and the Wheels have strayed Past the center line. II. I know I have opened something Kept buried in her chest Of treasures. This memory, a dark violent pixie Come to haunt us once again on the road From a Dylan and Dead show Where we lost one another in the crowd. I find her bent over...
Things My Mother Didn’t Tell Me
Things My Mother Didn’t Tell Me Jan Becker Mom never really said much about condoms. She just handed me a case when I was about sixteen and said, “Here, make sure that you use them.” They were ribbed and lubricated. Danny, my brother, and I made giant water balloons that we dropped like hand grenades on our little sister’s friends. We found that we could stretch the condoms as wide as...
Ernesto Likes to Call Me Mami
Ernesto Likes to Call Me Mami Jan Becker Ernesto likes to call me Mami. “Mami,” he says, “you got to face facts. You are a big beautiful Earthmothergoddesswoman. Man, you gotta love that, Mami cause it’s the truth.” I got curves, that’s for sure. A big round belly like the Venus of Willendorf, legs that have stood on the top of Gibraltar, feet that walked through the Atlas Mountains of Africa...
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