Spoken Word

If you are reading this, you’ve made it thru the holidaze. Glad to be in2024 with you!!

Late last year, I did an extended reading at Mary Abrams’ Moving Body Salon. It was quite engaging and fun.

It was captured on iPhone tape, edited a bit, and posted on my YouTube channel. Here’s the link, so you can check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRcAyxLCB_o

Enjoy

I’ve been getting into writing shorter poems. Here’s a couple of them as bonus trax…

My Mother’s Favorite Saying and its Zen Correction

it’s always something

unless it’s nothing

Contemporary Semiotic Languaging

omg yolo
ergo fomo

Woman on the 1 Train

she seemingly appears
out of nowhere
tho it was probably thru
the between car doors
that we used to
frequent as kids
but are now illegal

styled goldilocks curls
over a clean pressed
black maybe silk shirt
pure white pants
not quite covering
white fur house shoes

but it was the raw
crinkled extra large
paper cup that
gave her away
as homeless

she breaks into
a spirited
rendition of
heartbreak hotel

i would have given her $5
if I hadn’t had to get off
at the next stop

& she wasn’t
so into her

song

Arnie Wise May 2022

I

he’s likely the last
in my run of
wonderful drummers

played on more than a
score of my theatre & album 
projects while in his mid 70s 

now he’s almost 87
livin’ on social security
medications & memories

II

born a london jew
he moved to france
as a teenager

was getting so many
gigs that the authorities
deported him

had to make room
to give local 
drummers some