[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett
Ron Nadeau
ron at spirithousehealing.org
Mon Aug 10 15:26:53 PDT 2020
Something for you poetry hounds ~~~~ This is part of the series that Blake More puts out ~~~~.
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> Subject: August Third Thursday Poetry Featuring a Virtual Reading with Oakland Poet, the Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett
> Date: August 9, 2020 at 6:59:28 AM PDT
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> Third Thursday Poetry August 2020 ~ Virtual Zoom Reading Invitation
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> AUGUST 2020
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> Point Arena
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> OAKLAND POET CASSANDRA DALLETT FEATURED VIRTUALLY AT POINT ARENA THIRD THURSDAY POETRY
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> 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.
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> Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review 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.
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> Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, On Sunday, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection, Collapse, also on Nomadic Press, also nominated for a CA Book Award. For links and more check out cassandradallett.me <https://facebook.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8a66e224163c00a3f99a2d28&id=ecfd2ca2d4&e=122da3593d> and look for the Forthcoming A Pretty Little Wilderness from Be About It Press.
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> To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake at snakelyone.com <mailto:blake at snakelyone.com>. 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.
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> Peace, health and poetry!
> Blake
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> Jails Have ATM Machines Now
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> Plastic cards buy commissary and child support.
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> For an extra three dollars
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> you can add a personal message
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> Don’t worry about us we’ll be fine
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> or We love and miss you
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> Happy Birthday
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> After we slide our credit cards
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> a woman behind us struggles
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> to shove in her few wrinkly dollar bills.
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> On the block the kids stay out all night
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> lining the stairs with hundreds of flaming prayer candles,
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> spray the walls for Poodie from two six,
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> Implore him in death to shine on.
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> Each night they bring
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> the biggest red heart balloons
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> the kind sold for valentines and high school graduations.
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> They fill the street with beating heart cars
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> double parked and spilling liquor in his memory.
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> When the phone rings you press five as fast as you can.
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> So as not to lose a precious moment of his voice.
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> You accept that he can only speak to you
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> on a police recording.
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> There are options, more money for more minutes.
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> You can buy them so he can’t call anyone but you.
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> You pay for time with no idea what words will fill it.
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> How many ways can you say love or absent.
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> You describe reaching for his side of the bed
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> using his chap stick because it’s the last thing
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> to touch the softness of his lips.
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> Lips, you fell on and into in a bar,
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> lips you woke to, like a life raft at sea.
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> Behind security glass cracked and dry,
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> they are an un-kissed desert.
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> You roll his chap stick on the thirst of your lips
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> until you reach the empty plastic.
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> You run your hands between your thighs
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> where he buried his face at night,
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> feel nothing but exhaustion. Down the street the kids are rapping,
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> dressed up, passing blunts
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> blowing smoke at the unfair sky.
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> You place candles in your windows, burn sage
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> you mourn with them.
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> You have suffered a kind of death also.
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> In the morning, you pour two cups of coffee
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> empty his into the garden out back.
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> The dogs are bored with your sadness
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> refuse belly rubs even when offered
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> you look the dog in her eye
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> share the disappointment of you own hand
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> because indeed, it is not his.
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> You internet search the things you can and can’t send him
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> these companies have made phone apps to send your money to jails.
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> These enterprises who make the packages you send your beloved,
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> the same who offer to send your college student modified food products
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> You tell them all the ways to recreate crackers, ramen, and chips.
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> to pretend it is sustenance when in fact it is currency.
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> The first time you saw your son’s college dorm it struck you
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> the same companies build prison cells,
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> prisoners build the beds and desks in both,
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> to house your child, your man, perhaps yourself, one day.
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> Outside at the memorial they are barbequing tonight.
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> you put chicken in the oven
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> can’t light charcoal without your grill man.
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> you tell yourself you must live,
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> you tell yourself to write,
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> wait his call, wait and wait, lose weight,
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> memorize the number that has replaced his name,
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> find his white dress shirt bought for the courtroom
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> limp in the dryer,
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> walk his letters to the mail box,
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> tell yourself you are living
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> a brain connected to a body,
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> a hand to put money in the machine.
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> A heart commodified
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> a special message
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> Don’t worry about us we’ll be fine.
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> Cassandra Dallett
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