Tuesday, September 30, 2014



Sheesh! It’s been a while. Suppose
it’s either be a mountaineering cat,
climbing granite faces or sit here
pounding away with weary paws
writing for granite faces.

Oh, come on! Makes you squirm,
doesn’t it? Struth.

Yup, that be the situation: seems
that writing “poetry” brings out the stoic
in people, giving them the false-self
impression, the self-imposed sage,
believing they’re going to impress,
or change the world—either way,
probably won’t happen.
So, why not have fun with your writing?!
Shel certainly did—created an entire life
around having fun and being, irreverently
—just himself.

Speaking of having fun…
Cheap Seats Ticket to Ride

Another, “yup.” Yup, these guys are
having a goodly time of it with their new
publication for “poetry” writers, new & old,
who, really, want to write. Why not check it out?

Cheap Seats Ticket to Ride 
c/o Canyon Wren Press
P.O. Box 249
Empire, CO  80438-0249

For an SASE they will send you guidelines
(no e-techies here, they’re all old school
mechanical paste-up mavens from the age
of real ink, glue and pulp paper—
guaranteed, you’ll learn a thing or two
about the historic details of the
newspaper business.) A very unique,
unassuming print.
Just received the first issue,
Ticket Book No. One”. Very impressed.
Of course I should be, I’m supposed to
be one of the “advisory editors”
(a very loosely applied term.)

More soon, Max tdc

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