POETIC LICENSE 05 TOUR

with the Athens Boys Choir and Kathleen Delaney

5/19 Atlanta, GA * Tower II

5/20 Asheville NC * house show

5/23 Duhram, NC *e-mail for info

5/24 Charlottesville * Gravity Lounge

5/25 Washington DC * the Black Cat

5/29 Philadelphia PA * house show

5/30 NY, NY * Bluestockings Bookstore

5/31 NY, NY * Boys Room

6/2 Portland, ME

6/3 Boston, MA * All Asia

6/4 Provincetown, MA * the Vixen

6/17 Louisville, KY

6/19 Des Moines, IA

6/22 South Bend, IN

Thursday, May 19th

Atlanta, GA

Tower II

735 Ralph McGill Blvd NE

(404) 523-1535

$5

8pm

21+

Contact: Karen G 404.259.4666



Friday, May 20

Asheville, NC

381 S. French Broad Ave.

Backyard

Contact grover: 828.225.5689





Monday, May 23

Duhram, NC

Bully's Basement

1104 Broad ST.

9:00

$5



Tuesday May 24th

Charlottesville, VA

Gravity Lounge

103 South First Street

434.977.5590

all ages

$5

8:00

Contact: Bill @ above #





Wednesday May 25th

Washington DC

The Black Cat

1811 14th St. NW

202.667.7960

$7

18+

under 18 with parental permission

9:00

contact Vicki: 202.667.4527

Friday, May 27

Washington, DC

House Show

e-mail for more info



Sunday 5/29

Philadelphia, PA

House Show

More info to come



Monday 5/30

NY, NY

Bluestockings Bookstore

172 Allen St. between Stanton and Rivington

212.777.6028

$5 – no one turned away for lack of funds

all ages

www.bluestockings.com



Tuesday, May 31st

NYC, NY

Snapshot @ the Boys Room

9 Avenue A (at first street)

Show @ 8:30

Admission: 8pm-10pm no cover

10pm-11pm optional open bar $7

10pm-3am $5 w/o open bar

www.snapshotnyc.com

Thursday, June 2

Portland, ME

Casco Bay Books

151 Middle Street

207-541-3842

8pm

$5

Friday June 3

Boston, MA

All Asia

334 Mass Ave

617.497.1544

Show @ 9

$6

with systyr act and gafia

21+



Saturday June 4th

Provincetown, MA

the Vixen

Details TBA

START SOLO TOUR

Friday, June 17th

Louisville, KY

Old Louisville Coffee House

1489 South Fourth Street

Corner of 4th and Hill

Louisville, KY 40208

Opening: My friend Hedi

(502) 773-3116

7:00 p.m.

$3-$5 Sliding Scale

Sunday, June 19th

Des Moines, IA

The Ritual Cafe

6:00 p.m.

$5-$10 s.s.

Wedensday, June 22nd

South Bend, IN

Another Bookstore

7:00 p.m.

$5-$10 s.s.

There is a picture of my little brother

All spiky hair and loose limbs

With sad stories drifting in his eyes

And an evil unrestrained childhood grin

The sound of years and video games smack up against my window late at night

With his rage, fuel from fireflies caught in a jarSparks in an instant from beauty to beast

This is physiological they say

Built into the cells of systems

Missing pieces in the makeup

Make upYouth detention centers in the middle of valueless corn fields

Penny for your thoughtless, wordless accusations

Four year olds pulling knives
>Teenagers attacking mothers

These are domestic disturbances

Fist to your face claws to your skin tears and apologies and never happen agains

This is not an isolated occurance

This is TV dinners and nightly news

Frozen pizzas and fairy tales

These are fights over pepsi rights

As American as appropriation

It does not start or stop at the chalk art on my childhood front walk

It extends like a map in purple flaked glory into every home and every heartbreak

Visions of angela davis clicking away

Crouched over her computer trying to make sense of industry

And complexes

Imprisioned in racism and classism

Complex, they say

But ever so clear to sisters and daughters that this is directly related to industry

Like chrystler and cocaine

Cocoa-cola and Ritalin

All gifts from the government to its people for a direct route to cell blocksA basic building unit of life as we will know it

Grown

Up in counties filled with farms and factories

Fathers finished off a few years past fifty

His limbs filled with fluid like an overinflated off road jeep Cherokee four wheel drive tire

Success stories turn into nurses and social workers

Unable to heal wounds from husbands and brothers and sons

Sleeping in a county that has no social service agency and no social worker and no option to heal my genetically related violent fed siblings

And so he like so many other sad sibling stories sits in a jail at seventeen waiting for his time to be up-chucked on imagination

A white skinned privledge deviation

This does not stop being at my finger puppet show or friendster page friends

This is a filibusters on election day

Filling flatbush avenue with coffee shops

Bed-stuy into bedroom homes

Turning mills into mini-malls

Concepts of safety are costing those that are the most unsafe

Claws to the flesh of our family fabrics

False beliefs in believing

Faggot screamed at sisters and fists flown at mothers

This is not an isolated occuranceDomestic and disturbing

THIS is Detroit and THIS is Toledo

This is my family thrown haphazardly into the air to see how quickly the pieces may tear

Celibacy a focus on the family answer for despair

While we’re getting fucked

All the while fueling wars in our minivans and drinking down the destruction of Palestine in our coke cans

Caught in the claws

A festering future since four

Destiny they say

Found fatherless four months late

Finished are the fantasies of moving beyond this fate

Filling up my eyes with headlines the hour is late

And its clear to me we’re just fluttering around our days escaping the festering mandate

That violence, domestic and disturbing

Is being served up for dinner

On your plate

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