THE ED SANDERS PRAISE POEM SHORT VERSION!

Take stock if you would stock knock kock who’s there it’s

Ed Sanders Praise Poem!

the Spirit of Woodstock Noli in Spiritu Combieri!

subscribe to the Journal of the Center of Time, before the beginning of time!

Hear now the praises of places dayses amazes scholarship hoot’n’hollership the Last Renaissance Man!

His instruments: the eye of the day: the you of the night

pause shifting of the asses in chairs

memories collecting corny as kumbaya campfires,

tight as tomorrow’s poems to be writ today

Ed at Olson conference seeding future

return in a rush to begin a tradition

someone's craning in the creek right now

someone's spirit is blowing blue out the window

Death don't stop here, a tree blossoms one

by one each a place you lived

and as you shovel out the Mountainside the Big One

the SUN rips top of your head open

(no, it's gentle like can opener)

peer inside slightly balding pate

of dear mustachioed centerpiece never looked so sweet

as the moment when history became verse

in his hand writ free of the Twentieth Century

dear Allen, the Life and Times

the warbling Fugs

How sweet he roams

towards Slum Goddess Miriam of the Creeks

the deer as equals and the poem as language the pulsing of the lyre and

stupid stupid stupid heart open verse, rhymed verse, chanted verse, spoken verse,
performance verse, musical verse, religious verse, erotic verse, mad sonnets,

sane sonnets, even sonnets that aren’t even sonnets!
If you want to write tiny rhymed couplets
on the back of postage stamps,
it’s okay!

Hear em at Woodstock’s best performance zones:
F-Stop Cafe Center for Photography,  Upstairs at Joshua’s the astounding Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock’s graceful Town Hall the Woodstock Youth Center, the Woodstock Library, and even at the peaceful Woodstock Artists’ Cemetery.

Tonight will be overnight poetry encampment at nearby Opus 40 Sculpture Park!

So in the interest of public tranquility, we list the following

Places in Woodstock for Visitors Not to Smoke Pot:
1) The Artists Cemetery
2) Parking lot behind Houst's Hardware
3) Anywhere near the nightclub called The Joyous Lake
4) In the beautiful open space near the Woodstock town offices on Comeau Drive
5) In the Woodstock Green
6) "Down by the old Mill Stream" swimming hole after which famous song named
7) The parking lot in back of the Chamber of Commerce information building

Comparing the handwriting of the rival Karmapas

Wherest puttest thou 800 pound elk on Rt 28?