Auguries Cast Aside

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Readings and performances by Hilton Als, Kirsty Bell and CAConrad: Sunday January 13, 4pm

Auguries Cast Aside
CAConrad

                                                        to enter the sky with our bodies

                                                        the principal concern for

                                                        inventing airplanes

                                                   no one taught me this

                                      any more than they taught me

                     to say good morning to my hippocampus

                      but I do because I love my hippocampus

                                        I was in a band one summer

                                        we never could harmonize

                                        we smiled and kept playing

                                        we loved our united disunity

                                        a wild stubborn focus

                                        chewing its way out

                                        how awkward the

                                        archer after

                                        shooting

                                        his arrow

                                        remembering

                                        first time getting

                                        into bed just

                                        for sex

                                      they say

                               I’m old now

                            ask my advice

                   all I have to offer is

            make as many mistakes

     as you can handle but make

  them as soon as possible

  oh and don’t waste time

following each other from

opposite sides of the river

   when storm blows wig

      off my head it simply

        means it is time to let

         the storm take its share