Last evening, crying jags. This morning, laughing jags!

I remembered this $100  dream on waking

“I was riding transit bus. I was attempting to read a poem out loud I had won e competition I had won the top prize,  $100 poetry contest, and the privilege of reading it on a moving transit bus. Riders seemed all to be other contestants, many known to me,  I was sure they thought I did not deserve my prize. Despite mostly agreeing with them, I said hey listen I’m the one who won the $100 prize! When you win the $100 prize then you can read your poems. So shut up because I wanna read my poem now which is one of the benefits of winning this $100 poetry contest!”

Yes I’ve been “On the bus” then and now, the people’s limousine as Mitch Podoluk called it, though he was infrequent rider, and not on this one. I ran “Poetry in Motion,” “Words on Wheels” in the 1980s from SWG. One of my Afghanistan poems made it onto a Winnipeg Transit bus at some point, two in Rattle magazine.

 

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

RECENT POSTS

Categories

Blog Subscription

To receive notification of new articles.