Recall Walker/Stand with Wisconsin Poetry Reading, 3/27, Milwaukee

If you’re looking for a creative outlet to help manage the frustrations of living in FitzWalkerstan, check out the Recall Walker/Stand with Wisconsin Poetry Reading in Milwaukee this Tuesday, March 27th. Tom Hibbard, a fellow Waukesha liberal, activist, poet and friend has organized an event that will be “just like the good old Vietnam days with Norman Mailer screaming that he is Richard Nixon’s alter ego and John Berryman too drunk to do anything but pass out back stage.”

‘Nuff said.

The details:

RECALL WALKER

Kleefisch, Fitzgerald, Moulton, Wanggaard

P O E T R Y

R E A D I NG

STAND  WITH  WISCONSIN 

where: PEOPLES BOOKS CO-OP, 2122 E. LOCUST ST.

when: TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 7 P.M.

FREE / DONATIONS GO TO PEOPLES BOOKS

readers: NICK DEMSKE, CHING-IN CHEN,

ROBERTO HARRISON, DAWN TEFFT, TOM HIBBARD

Here’s a poem from Tom Hibbard’s Twenty Poems (For the People) reprinted with permission from the author:

THE OBSTACLES

in my actions is part of the future

i hate favoritism

doing the same thing day in & day out

i hate looking through a peep hole

at a moth doing a latino dance

i don’t want to stare in a capitalist mirror

wondering if it’s a deception

a hundred years from now

in the unplugged world of digital slaves

our lives taken out of our hands

the corporate death ray will provide all the answers…

from its radioactive smoke of dishonesty

fall people that have turned into cockroaches

committing serious crimes

in an effort to gain splendor

it all began in a moment

emanating from diffused innocence

introducing the concept of mistake

an inexplicable target of delay

in mid-morning a rainbow of optimism

the madison teacher’s union

refusing to report to the classroom

the fab fourteen stonewalling their plans

gaining economic freedom

in this way the alarm is sounded

against one man’s original sin

a day’s pay for a day’s work