performance poet
wayne hogan
She was a performance
poet. She carried a white
rooster on her left shoulder
and recited the Gettysburg
Address from large cue cards
held just off stage. The rooster
would tighten its grip ever so
slightly to let the poet know
when she was through, then
the rooster would flap down onto
the floor. The rooster would
leave grip-marks on the
poetıs left shoulder.
