<div dir="auto">Cool Ron!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 3:26 PM Ron Nadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Something for you poetry hounds ~~~~ This is part of the series that Blake More puts out ~~~~. <br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">blake more <<a href="mailto:blake@snakelyone.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blake@snakelyone.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">August 9, 2020 at 6:59:28 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rnadeau@mcn.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rnadeau@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">blake more <<a href="mailto:blake@snakelyone.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blake@snakelyone.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div><center style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" 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src="https://mcusercontent.com/a8a66e224163c00a3f99a2d28/images/d0865d72-f08e-474b-ac99-4b6da194e4c3.jpeg" width="314" style="border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom;max-width:618px"></a></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="296" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;padding:9px 18px;font-weight:normal"><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;font-weight:normal"><span><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>OAKLAND POET CASSANDRA DALLETT FEATURED VIRTUALLY AT POINT ARENA THIRD THURSDAY POETRY</strong></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:16px">The Arena Theater and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry present a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7pm on Thursday, August 20, 2020. This month features Oakland poet Cassandra Dallett (aka the badass bookworm), with open mic to follow. </span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16px">Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in <em>Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review </em>among many others. Cassandra reads often around the Bay Area, she hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six, is a facilitator at MOWW, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast, and co-hosts and curates the quarterly reading series Moon Drop Productions as well as The Badass Bookworms Lit Loft.</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16px">Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (<em>Manic D Press)<span> </span></em>was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, On Sunday, A Finch (<em>Nomadic Press) </em>was nominated for a California Book Award<em>, </em>2018 brought the release of another full-length collection, Collapse, also on <em>Nomadic Press</em>, also nominated for a CA Book Award. For links and more check out<span> </span><a href="https://facebook.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8a66e224163c00a3f99a2d28&id=ecfd2ca2d4&e=122da3593d" style="color:rgb(243,53,6);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cassandradallett.me</a><span> </span>and look for the Forthcoming A Pretty Little Wilderness from Be About It Press.</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16px"><em>To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email<span> </span><a href="mailto:blake@snakelyone.com" style="color:rgb(243,53,6);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blake@snakelyone.com</a>. Third Thursday Poetry Zoom made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.</em></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:left;font-weight:normal"><br><span><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Peace, health and poetry!<br>Blake </strong></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed!important;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;border-top-width:2px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(177,41,7)"><tbody><tr><td><span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 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three dollars </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you can add a personal message </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Don’t worry about us we’ll be fine</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">or We love and miss you </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Happy Birthday</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">After we slide our credit cards </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">a woman behind us struggles </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">to shove in her few wrinkly dollar bills. </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">On the block the kids stay out all night </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">lining the stairs with hundreds of flaming prayer candles,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">spray the walls for Poodie from two six,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Implore him in death to shine on.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Each night they bring</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">the biggest red heart balloons </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">the kind sold for valentines and high school graduations.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">They fill the street with beating heart cars </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">double parked and spilling liquor in his memory.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">When the phone rings you press five as fast as you can.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">So as not to lose a precious moment of his voice.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You accept that he can only speak to you </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">on a police recording.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">There are options, more money for more minutes.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You can buy them so he can’t call anyone but you.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You pay for time with no idea what words will fill it.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">How many ways can you say love or absent.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You describe reaching for his side of the bed </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">using his chap stick because it’s the last thing </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">to touch the softness of his lips.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Lips, you fell on and into in a bar, </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">lips you woke to, like a life raft at sea.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Behind security glass cracked and dry,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">they are an un-kissed desert.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You roll his chap stick on the thirst of your lips </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">until you reach the empty plastic.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You run your hands between your thighs </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">where he buried his face at night,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">feel nothing but exhaustion. Down the street the kids are rapping, </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">dressed up, passing blunts</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">blowing smoke at the unfair sky. </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You place candles in your windows, burn sage </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you mourn with them.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You have suffered a kind of death also.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">In the morning, you pour two cups of coffee </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">empty his into the garden out back.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">The dogs are bored with your sadness </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">refuse belly rubs even when offered </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you look the dog in her eye </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">share the disappointment of you own hand </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">because indeed, it is not his.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You internet search the things you can and can’t send him</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">these companies have made phone apps to send your money to jails.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">These enterprises who make the packages you send your beloved,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">the same who offer to send your college student modified food products </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">You tell them all the ways to recreate crackers, ramen, and chips.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">to pretend it is sustenance when in fact it is currency.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">The first time you saw your son’s college dorm it struck you</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">the same companies build prison cells,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">prisoners build the beds and desks in both,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">to house your child, your man, perhaps yourself, one day. </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">Outside at the memorial they are barbequing tonight.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you put chicken in the oven </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">can’t light charcoal without your grill man.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you tell yourself you must live,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">you tell yourself to write, </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">wait his call, wait and wait, lose weight,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">memorize the number that has replaced his name,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">find his white dress shirt bought for the courtroom </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">limp in the dryer,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">walk his letters to the mail box,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">tell yourself you are living</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">a brain connected to a body, </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">a hand to put money in the machine.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">A heart commodified </p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px;text-align:left">a special message </p><p style="margin:10px 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