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Well I did it tonight. I got up on stage and performed three of my poems in front of about thirty people, most of them musicians. It was open mike night at the Longbeach coffee house. There were three categories: music, poetry and spoken word. I got up and introduced myself as James, from every $20 motel you've ever heard of. The MC asked my category. I said, "Mumbled Word." I did a cold reading of three randomly chosen pieces of mine: Bear In The Woods Singing Dirty Ditties, Running The Red Light of Immortality and Sloth. I almost hit my stride with Sloth, almost felt I had them, knew I had at least one guy in the back when he yelled, "YEAAAAAAAAAH!." I had been a nervous wreck before I got on. I had brought Gordon The Hollywood Anarchist with me because he's got a weapons permit and could've gotten me out if the audience got violently pissed at how bad I sucked. I sat out in the audience feeling like I was going to spew. Louise, who had conspired with Steve to get me to come out tonight, said that all my life had been leading up to this. Now I REALLY had to spew. But as soon as I got through "Bear In The Woods" and heard the applause, I was hooked. I wanted that mike. I asked the audience if they wanted another one and they said "YEAAAAH!" That was cool. I finished my set and sat back out in the audience. As soon as my heart stopped pounding, I wanted that mike back. In three weeks I will be 50. Kind of late to be starting new things. Kind of not. I LOVE being around creative people. I LOVE being almost one of them. Fifty. Kind of late. Kind of not. I may be on the path to reinventing myself again. Maybe not, but I've caught a microphone jones now . . . a microphone jones. |
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Name: | James Jarvis | |||||||||||||||||
Email: | marquisdejolie@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||
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