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for every hung-out-to-dry artist or poet the road trip is permanently etched in their everloving psychosis of the individual as free highway 41 a north/south artery snakes its way from Key West to northern Wisconsin someone once said the test of true friendship is a 200 mile trip with the radio off it is dark the headlights lead I follow the electric guitar man is fast asleep in the passenger seat somewhere out there in the dark lies Minnesota I am on my way to read poetry to a collection of people I have never met daybreak which poet will show up this time the mad poetthe comic relief poet the brooding poet the beat poet the poet as metaphor i have come to pay homage to the grand Buddha poet of the north the grand Buddha poets mantra reads poetry is show business so break a leg slap the tambourine the harmonica man rules
jimmy the guitar man made noise
©2001 by William Sovern 
William Sovern has promoted over 200 poetry readings in the last fifteen years in the Evansville, Indiana area. He is currently the host of the Tuesday Night Reading Series at the Jungle Restaurant & Fat Cats Bar in Evansville, which includes local, regional & national poets. He is the founder of the poetry performance group, Shakespeare's Monkey. which has performed in New York this year at CBGB's, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, and at the Nuyorican Poetry café.
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