January 2012
3 posts
Hearth Gods XXXIV
Saturday, Feb. 4, 9pm
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POET: I have news.
BEER: NOONS!
POET: I'm leaving you.
I'm going to live on the moonbase.
BEER: WOF?
POET: It is a clean, dead place where I can be free. Where I can live in my art,
which is all I have wanted to do in the years that are left to me.
...
Are you going to beg me to stay?
BEER: WOULD IT DO ANY GOOD?
POET: No. No, it wouldn't.
BEER: ...
[BEER begins to cry.]
POET: Stop that.
[BEER opens one Brooklyn Lager. Raises it above his head.]
BEER: TO MOTHERFUCKING EARTH
Next Reading: February 4
Theme: BAD DESIRE
Color: MAUVE
Song: “Maggot Brain” - Funkadelic
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