Dear Bleaders,
What did we really learn from Eliot? I mean, we learned a tome, but all of it was wrong. So what singular gem that holds up did he leave us embroidered in braille on his trouser hem? This center piece in the puzzledox parabox of the universe I'm in (you're in here with me. watch your hands. redheads and my husband aside): There will be time.
There will be time.
Life is long.
There will be time, there will be time.
Redheads, real or imaginary. If you want some of my honey, bunny, better paint your head red.
At Poetry Brothel's I always bring presents for redheads. A polished stones. A pearl. An Advil. Whatever seems appropriate. It's a trick to get them to kiss me. Sue me. I like them. Real, dye, or imaginary.
There is going to be a Poetry Brothel tonight at the Back Room. Maybe you like life a little dirty. Maybe there are crumbs of poetry down your shirt even now. So you'll join us tonight, we will be high not on life but on essentially legal substances, being used in ways slightly at odds with their stated directions. Poetry will be said that will hurt your poor ape heart and bruise your knuckle-eyed head. How could we have lost so much and ended up aloft in bounty, riding what used to be the purple sage but is now a delightful settee? I do not know, but I am glad that it is you and me. Seriously. I don't care if anyone shows up, but I do hope you drop by. I am going to lounge around lasciviously and tell people important secrets.
I love you. Don't kill yourself. For those of you who can't make it, I'll see you in your dreams.
xox
JMH
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Tonight Only: May 16, 8:00 PM. The Back Room – 102 Norfolk St @ Delancey/Rivington. Enter through a small alleyway down a few steps on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and set foot into a den of anachronistic pleasures. Guests for the evening are encouraged to come dressed in the spirit of the Prohibition-era to enjoy a clandestine drink or two, bursts of poetry, live music, tarot and palm readers, gypsies, and a slew of poetry whores! Admission is free. More information here.