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O listens as a friend from the streets
reads a poem about a rose
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POET-O
Famous for his brass
unicorn bell, street poet and former Central
Park resident Isidore Block (aka Poet-O) conducted a
poetry reading in the library of Marymount
College last night. I say conducted because O
only recited a few himself (from memory,
having forgotten his glasses, he asked for
cues from the audience who followed along on
Xeroxed copies with KEEP FOR $1.00
SO THAT POET-O CAN SURVIVE at the bottom
of each).
Lenny the
Speller r-e-a-d-s
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| Instead, students, fellow street people, and your
reporter were invited to perform the autobiographical
poems about drinking scotch in a refrigerator box on Wall
Street Christmas Eve, fighting for space at a weekly free
meal for the homeless, and landing in jail for accepting a
joint on Times Square. Some were
coerced, like the student who'd wandered in looking for a
professor but then surprised everyone with a
beautiful reading to start the evening, but for the man
who apologized for his lispy Spanish accent and two of O's
friends from the streets who shared a pair of eyeglasses
it was a moment to feel important. |
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