Green Leaf Cafe Reading Line up

Contest Winners
2pm - 3:15pm

MC Jen Kunlire will read for Stuart Ian Mackay

1)Weyman Chan
2)Katherine Anderson
3)Rona Altows
4)Tall Bill
5)Sarah Murphy
6)Jen Kunlire
7)Jane MacKinnon, will also read for Del Anderson
8)Len B
9)Nathan Lenet
10)Lori D Roadhouse

Open Mic Readers
3:15 - 3:45
Anushka Naji & Vi Gerbrant

Submission Guideline

CONTEST CLOSED
Thank You for submitting to Green Leaf Cafe', hope to see

you during the Ecopalooza Fair April 17th, 2 - 3 onwards Central Library Main floor, North side.

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Weyman Chan, Photo Credit Wanda Martin

Sarah Murphy; Photo Credit Wanda Martin

Rona Altrows; Photo Credit Wanda Martin

Tall Bill; Photo Credit Wanda Martin

Jane Mckinnon ; Photo Credit Wanda Martin

Monday, April 5, 2010

OH TO BE GREEN

green is great

green is good

green is what I wanted to be

But I met this woman

Well green went the way of was

Her light blinded me

Or I would have been on

The green road headed out of here

But that damn smile

Lassoed me in

I couldn’t wriggle free

I didn’t want to

Oh afterward

Slumped over the table

From the shear weight of not being green

Even though the sun’s shining

I couldn’t see green through all the tears

Wasted on the wooden floor

Plus getting tangled in the

Wrapping paper marriage

Was so damn messy

Which I tried to recycle so many times

Those half-filled green bottles

I’ve been trying to not drink

But the dashed hopes of being green

I suck the rest down

never thought I wouldn’t be green

never imagined anything being any other color

The ungreen imaginings crafting crazy

sucking me dry

Once used to my last drop

I was thrown

Thrown devoid of care in a rubbish heap


By Del Anderson

Del Anderson is in and out of trouble making his way through life, observing people and how they act in everyday situations. He has a useful appreciation of the unsophisticated workings of persons, and their actions as they adapt to their world from their own life experiences. In his poetic practice he recognizes the value of surreal and absurd styles for their straight- forward, simplistic and humorous content- like life itself.


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