Karouac was on the road to Stockton, Jo
Dave’s not here
Dave took 5
Benjamin Holt
Johnny Weir
Jack and Allen
with Burroughs
found
Jules Feiffer ate half his lunch at The Haggin
no one expected him no one at all
Waiting for 4.23 to begin
No communication and The Two Young Ones smoke to much inspiration
It’s back and forth stuff, Jo
Back and forth until Iggy Pop shows up with his Parrot
the art of the monologue just tell Ed when to laugh, Johnny
Eddie Murphy was 15
at the Open Mic
Stand up for your self
at the Open Mic
You have a generation to defend
at the Open Mic
Show you care about your art
at the Open Mic
BTW texting allowed
at the Open Mic
Multitask while tradition is surpassed by modern
All the benefits of no homework for a week
maybe
The Town Crier said $&@’%#!! on Monday afternoon
It’s called Effective Communication
It’s back and forth stuff, Jo
Like Brazilian and jazz
You have good words
If you misspell and fuck up the occasion
One should know
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Björk and Jim Morrison
with Pius Paul and Eugenius Vulgarius
Dan Rather said a thing or two
Roger Waters
spilled something on the Wall
causing much unrest
in Pollardville
Anyone have paper towels?
Mother Functions
Timing Drama Storytelling Improv
I have a dream
and a bag of chips
Show up if you can handle poetry in hip hop political harmony
If you’re a true Flommist, you’ll show naturally
And figure out why is it worth talking about
I dare you 2
Any músik?
((So German CAN BE spoken with a Spanish accent))
Okay so everything’s cool just waiting on Ryan’s truck and we’ll buck up later
Get tattooed while partying with Big Teeth and The Funky Bunch
Forever change your view of art
It has a different smell
Wake up and smell the art
want bee flommitising
Yo get down wit dis I dare you!
Lions and tigers
Peace to the treaty
5 valve shower, man
—rone
Flommist Rone is a caring native Californian who chases dreams in many forms. A golden mind, a golden life. Living currently in the now! Copyright © 2016 Rone.
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Top photo by Flommist Kristen Valentine Buechler, with Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs and Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957).
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