Hearth Gods is a bi-monthly reading series at Jimmy's No. 43, at 43 East 7th Street in the East Village of New York City. Curated by M. Yates Crowley. Email list: myc [at] hearthgods [dot com]

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