X-posted on my blog: mannabozo.wordpress.com [Apocalyptic Rabbit Speaks]
It’s 5:15 pm on Thursday, February 14th, 2008. It’s Valentine’s Day, and this is going to be my love letter to Delaware. Tonight my friends in the band
i, Fanblades are playing at Mojo 13 with my friends in the band,
The Collingwood. Things start tonight at 8 pm there….please come, if you can. I’d like to see you.
It’s been a long time for me here in Delaware. Ten years of so much living; I’m going to miss you all.
Please let me say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to every single poet who ever read at the Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mike & Slam, in all of the locations that it has been in over the years. I can barely comprehend the sheer breadth of work that I’ve been so privileged to hear. Thank you to every friend I’ve ever made in Delaware, through poetry and through work. So much has happened, so much amazing poetry has been heard over the years. I know that I am forever changed by my experiences here in Delaware, and by everything I’ve seen and heard as a poetry night host. Thank you to all the poets in the “academic” community here in Delaware, thank you Newark Arts Alliance, thank you Soulstice, thank you Crimson Moon, thank you O’Friel’s, thank you to the Second Saturday poets, thank you to the hip-hop poets, the rap poets, the student poets, the older poets, the crazy poets - thank you all. Thank you to my kindred poets in neighboring Baltimore and Philly and New Jersey - much love, my people, much love. My heart is full of love and thanks to all of my friends here in Delaware - a man could not have better friends than you all have been to me. I could name some people, but, if you are a friend of mine, or have been, then you know that and you know that I love you and am grateful for your friendship.
If you can, please come to a going-away-and-good-luck party taking place at the house of
Matt & Hannah & Nigel & Sadako tomorrow night, Friday night…. you can email me at rabbitinvasion@gmail.com for details on how to get here if you can make it.
Good luck to you, Delaware. Love and good luck to Delaware poets and to the Delaware Poetry Slam.
May the spirit of a little stone bunny rabbit guide you, and bring a smile to your face.