i did! i'm all grown up now! sunrise, sunset.

it was actually a great reading. starring aaron kiely (not minogue), suzanne stein, & stephanie's cat. aaron read w/aplomb & also sang 2 songs. his poems were very repetitious or insistent. repetition works so well i think. i was taking some notes & i wrote down: "repetition--cheap trick? but who cares?" just because it's so fun to hear repetitive things. he read another poem "from when i was an abstract expressionist poet, but i'm not anymore." i'd like to hear about that conversion process. a very exciting part was when the cat sipped his wine during the reading, then recoiled.

suzanne's poems were a bit more out there. she said they were about our "wrong-headed stance of non-compliance both in prosody & politic" which sounded very provocative but she never got very specific. honestly i have no idea what she was talking about. the answer was that we needed a new attitude of "pliancy on the molecular level." um. hmm. i'd like to know more about that! i need it explained in reductive terms.

i am ready to go to more house readings!

also, there was a chiropractor there & we all got popped.