Segue Reading
The Segue reading was a pleasure, and Brian Stefans has sent out pictures. Here’s a nice blurry one of me in action:
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to check out Brian’s The Dreamlife of Letters. It’s also worth a moment to consider the absence of some of his work and how the right to parody doesn’t matter much if you don’t have cash available for a lawyer.
I read from The Impermanence Agent. As I tend to do, I pulled out the altered texts I read from live Agent sessions in the hours leading up to the performance. I’m still surprised and pleased by what I find. I like the way that things like this:
Bathroom with Grandma’s green soaps, Grandma’s glass perfumes, Grandma’s dried flowers still on the shelves. Fingers of the shower. Remembering the house with her whole body.
become things like this:
Bathroom with my friend, the shelves. Fingers of the shower. Remembering the first wave, looking grim, and her whole body.
and this:
Bathroom with this corporate benefit scheme: A quick look at the shelves. Fingers of the shower. Remembering the reflection of our belief in her whole body.
and this:
Bathroom with enron at the shelves. Fingers of the shower. Remembering the partnerships to hide $1 billion in her whole body.