June 13, 2013

boxing match tonight


poet vs. secretary face-off.
Match tonight, 8 PM, in Surveillance Arena

Boxer will play referee.
Audience identities encrypted for security.
Stay late for boxer's testimony on how he fought & won the trial with the poem.

June 11, 2013

unedited




Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, David Amram, Arthur's Landing @ Housing Works, NYC 2013.

June 09, 2013

in Klee


Man on the Street interviews in Renaldo & Clara

Shooting in Harlem outside the Apollo Theater 
Camera Operator asks a few kids

hey what do ya know about Rubin Carter? 


interviewer: 
Have you benefitted at all from 9 years in prison?
has it done anything positive for you? 
camera cuts away before an answer, music blares. 
no time for a circus. 

camera man films a man eating a hamburger outside the apollo.

Camera man tell hamburger eater:
yeah I think he's innocent too, why is he in there? 
Man between bites: 

"I'm not surprised. I'm not looking for justice in this country"

June 04, 2013

courtroom theater frame up

Bradley Manning Trial day 2 

Kop


June 03, 2013

providing its own Law

music says "Permanent Revolution"
and the bourgeoisie hear "Evolution, Progress."

And even if, among the young intellectuals, a few understand it
won't their present impotence
make them see this Liberation as beautiful myth,
instead of their own reality