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Elegy for 2nd Avenue Pizza

In Belltown
there is a hole
where a pizzeria used to be.

We would sit outside
from 4 to 6pm,

Passing time with 40oz of social grace,
drifting in and out of cheese soaked dreams
and mourning passerbys who had no mercy
for loose change.

Standing next to the oven
we saw them bake personal hearts
into the dough with pesto sauce
and chicken alfredo.

There was a jukebox,
which i'm sure is on a grave right now,
that played only early grunge music
and dixie blues.

Moments lost there
whistled and blink in high scores
chasing reveries
that hovered above the 50,000 point zone.

Closing one night
after 2am and counting
leaving rumnates
of small chunks of heaven
besides an out of business sign.

In Belltown
there is a hole
where a pizzeria used to be.
(and somenights I think it's still there)


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I've been working on that all week, considering where it came from I think it is going in a good direction.

Photographs and Things Happening this week.

Things have been quiet around here, small moments of coffee in the morning and writing and editing and reading. I'm reading "Tegami" by Mac Crary. He's a seattle writer and well worth the read. I would try to explain it, but I am feeling mighty inarticulate right now.

I'm also working through old pictures that I forgot I had. I used to be good at shots of minutes where people looked honest. I'd like to see eyes through viewfinders again. This is Bobby-Raddboy from too many years ago.

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Monday:

Homeland at On the House
Every Monday night from 7:30 to 10:00 pm.

Feature TBA. Open mic. Poets and musicians welcome.

No cover charge, but donations gladly accepted.

On The House

1205 E Pike Street

Seattle, WA

Tuesday:

The Visiting Writer Series, hosted by Pacific Lutheran University, presents Mary Oliver

Tuesday April 22, 2008

"The Writer’s Story": 5PM,

Reading: 7:30 PM

Wednesday:

SEATTLE POETRY SLAM

8pm, Wednesdays at ToST

513 N. 36th St. Seattle, Wa 98103

$5 cover, 21 and over, ID required

info@seattlepoetryslam.org

Thursday:

"Cheap Wine and Poetry"

A special all-poetry "Cheap Wine and Poetry" celebrating National Poetry Month.

Featured readers: Roberto Ascalon, Elizabeth Austen, Rebecca Loudon and Cody Walker. Hosted by Charla Grenz.
Open mic; wine is $1 a glass.
FREE. Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

http://www.cheapwineandpoetry.com/

Cabaret
Thursday, April 24th, 2008, 7:00 PM