We had a lot of fun at our recent Library Poetry Slam -- it was a big success at the Wheeler Library in Orange.- First Prize - Maureen Terence Moore of Shelburne Falls
Second Prize - Candace R. Curran of Orange
Third Prize - Robert Collen of Orange
I came in 2nd with a library poem performance titled Lamenting Your Loan. You might enjoy this...If you had called to renew...tried
librarian's helper, reader's advisory,
conjured keyword or
asked the desk jockey for some assistance...
If you had talked to me maybe...
I would have organized a search, researched
the bottom of the drop box,
found it? deja vu displaced and steeled in stacks...
perhaps it's resting, that's all,
languid between the bed and the wall...
If you do find it,
heart, a bookmark, seems to be
caught somewhere inside it
I have and inkling
we could have kept it circulating -
rewritten in epic tantric, a shower-song and/or
refrigerator poetry to be or not to be summarized,
virtually cataloged and in rave reviewed
pillow-talk book talks...immortalized!...
with a seguel, a trilogy perhaps, but certainly not this
eulogy to a default - lost and paid!
Oh - think of the words we could have made
if you... had only called...to renew.
Candace Curran 2008
delivered with much theatrics of course
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