'round midnight

gallery co 7
se 7th & harrison

featuring kerry campbell of WAR
poet michael franklin

$4

midnight to four am

tuesday evening at 8 pm michael franklin poet and count ushlaboo sax, will introduce portland to the next step. six dollar cover. count ushlaboo aka kerry campbell was the sax for WAR, dr.dre, snoop dog, the dramatics, marvin gaye, the funk brothers and more ( Read more... )

Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided ( Read more... )

Sterling had never had his portrait painted. His father, a one time artist now embittered angry sage of the back woods bar, painted portraits of all of his children, except for his eldest, who received a more visceral sort of affection. He was a masculine man, in his thirties, but had the demeanor of an ignored teenage boy who liked to spit and ( Read more... )

leaves chant verses of

"impermanence"

while seedlings sing in chorus

"rebirth, rebirth"

branches of conductors' wands

sway out clumsy rhythym

Thanks for the wild turkey and ( Read more... )

so i am in san francisco san francisco, and i get here early, hitch up one ride at 7 here by 10. bum around china town buy fake plastic buddha, very readiohead meets george harrison, then go off to meet gary snyder. in two a tibetan scarf of long life and safe journey, bamboo shoot, energy. he brushes me off with out a hello takes the gifts and ( Read more... )

this may be the last time we see this cup.

big sur. yes sir, big sur.

reading at the miller library in near future, here is the bill: patti smith, gary snyder, lawrence ferlinghetti, and michael franklin.

ha. ecstatic.

left out past blondes day riding by the handfuls goodbye sweetheart of the sweet confederacy and keep it flyin' through all the strange magnificence with strange semells and illegal smiles nearly burntout we're just beginning but by god that boy has a thousand 3 line prayers that keep us

they are in existence

-the junkies of 4th street-

wrestling withthe

poppies

andallfordimes

on the

rooftops

pigeons

nest

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