On Putting Up The Ticket Price at Hammer & Tongue

You think it’s easy,
being this airy poet dude
and still going out to earn a living?
My usefulness, such as it is,
resides in twisting words into strings of sweetly wrapped
bricks of meaning
to smash the glass walls of the discourse we’re trapped in.

Hammer & Tongue National Slam Final

Overview of the evening’s event at the 2012 H&T National Final at Wilton’s Music Hall