ABOUT MY LIFE By Ida Spaulding 9/13/09 Link to Youtube Vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0JB699q22U
Text of poem below Nobody's interested in my experiences the things I've loved the time I taught my horses to shake hands or my beehives' glorious honey the silkworms I raised and got some silk to spin No one cares about the places I've been. Once I invited the neighbors for Turkish tea, fired up the samovar until steam rose in the Berkeley Hills. These friends couldn't care less about my experiences Nobody wants to hear that I sat with my first husband the father of our child in a gay bar before 'gay' was in the vocabulary and tried to understand that he could go to jail for how he loved someone. No one wants to hear that He educated me far beyond my university Would anyone care to hear about my being out of my head with real hallucinations? And I've never taken LSD. Anyone want to know about my gratitude to my husband for not committing me or drugging me to become normal Whatever normal is Does anyone want to see the notes back to me from Norman O. Brown after I sent him all my poems or see his new book delivered to me hot off the press Love's Body, significantly not signed No one wants to hear about Peter Orlovsky, his work in my garden. that he borrowed the car about riding horseback with Allen Ginsberg or the time I had tea at their place Peter so beautiful in red jockey shorts Allen extolling meditation Nobody wants to hear about that Who wants to know about the service trip to India? How to empower people who live the shanti towns of New Delhi. Nobody wants to hear that let alone do that Nothing about my children Nor about my good husband, 87 still in the Boulder Bolder race Nobody wants to hear how much I enjoy my life how simple I am ----- -- -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
