First post for newbie

[only rob]

"when you see academics as the cloud
hanging over a library
as gargoyles" -- oh god, I'm doomed, they so ARE!

We don't have biker bars here, the bikies pretty much frequent every bar and keep their own little corner... but I'm going to try that, just to see what happens (Most of them are actually pretty literate though -- they're the guys who used their chemistry degrees for very profitable purposes)

And the less I say about those damn journals, the better...

Love it, Rob. Welcome!

I just love it when Aussies and Kiwis call them bikies. It makes me want to tease them/us. The biggest rush I get from poetry thus far, is when I do an open mic where the crowd only wants another drink in' song, and get them rockin' to spoken word.

I think I'm gonna like it here. Did you know Mercedes from the bad place? She's retracing Kerouac's footsteps across Ameriky as the subject of her doctoral thesis. Pretty cool that a middle aged Kiwi is doing that on her own, with all those trains and long dogs. She's gonna be here for the weekend in our wee poet's circle on my deck. I just love that of about six of us, I will be the only one without an advanced degree, or an infatuation with B.C. lol.