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kurt vonnegut

Low-Brow Poetry

The stories flowed
at the Low-Brow,
along with $2 PBR,
in a horrible symphony.

Kurt Vonnegut flipping off the VIPs
as he left, stiff drink in hand,
escorted by a dazed young writer
who now idolized him on a new plane.

Then there was another night
when
 all the poets almost starved.
“Yes, we’re the hospitality crew,”
we admitted, meekly, as we struck out.

It wasn’t even midnight on a Friday,
in this embarrassing one-horse town.
We drug them in tow looking for sustenance,
finally collapsing at the only venue still open.

Rita Dove, gracious but clearly famished;
Robert Bly first asking, then demanding,
“Where’s my drink – do you know who I am?”
As the bartender, non-plussed, got in his face.

We hung in there and were all soon munching
on a seemingly endless buffet of bad bar food:
tri-color tortilla chips and a near-rancid spinach dip.
As another successful poetry festival came to a conclusion.

It wasn’t my best photo at all – in fact it was captured on a Blackberry Storm – but it’s nonetheless exciting that a photo of mine has been included in a Schmap.com Guide of Portland. We love that event and try to attend most every year. It appears that Schmap cruises Flickr for photos and asks for the right to publish them on mobile maps.

bluesfest2 by jeffreyrbunch

Hi Jeff,

I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released ninth edition of our Schmap Portland Guide: Waterfront Blues Festival

According to its site:

“Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. More than 90 million Schmap Guides have been downloaded since first release in March 2006: this phenomenally popular series can also be browsed online, with versions optimized for iPhone and Nokia users”

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