POETREE is the heART at LIBER TEA

I'M  BACK 

& HAVING A GREAT TIME DYING

or itki felt like  dying 13020-13022 [Western Slope Calendar]

after throat cancer, surgery, chemo, radiation  hell-in-a-handbasket

hernia, mild 1-day Covid, nasty 3-week Front Range cold, prostate surgery

& then two weeks  purgatory tethered  by my shrunken urethra to  a urine bag

now itki's back to feeling like a great time  again

'cuz I got that goddam'  catheter out in spite of the morning's crystogram scare

where a leaky bladder showed up  again & I expected -- going cross town from Grand

Junkyard's St. Mary's to the Urological Associates  of Western Colorado by the Mall

I expected to be sent down  hell's escalator into the self-swamp of (at last) depression

but where instead hell's bells  a swarm of good docs conferred & gave the good nurse 

the greenlight to pull the fucker out.  Or the fuck-stopper.  Or whatever 

was left of my onceuponatime major pleasure center

Now itki's back to having a  great time again

 

until the next inferno disaster mass killing catastrophe brings me

bring us

face-to-face with DEATH that for some lucky few 

sits on our left shoulder like an angel

EXPECTED NON-EXEMPT NINTH LIFE  DEMISE 

RESURRECTED

I've re-energized this  dormant sleepingbear Art Goodtimes blogspot 

with itki's cache of  old Telluride UP BEAR CREEK columns from years past

that have outlasted the vagaries of  shape-shifting hometown newspapers

cutthroat  corporate publishers, a challenging Job-esque Scylla&Charybdus two-years

& my deep-rooted, pre-scholastic procilivity for an archive of congeries

The idea? 

To start sharing with friends & family what's most important to me

POETREE

which as my good bardic  condor compadre Kush might say

Is the Heart at LIBER TEA

Here's a  new performance work-in-progress that plays off of 

the etymological explorations of the late Tom Jay of the Pacific Northwest 

& my big stage run-on rant style, with repetitive structural tropes scattered about.

Itki goes after Christianity 

& our American obsession with comfort & "happy" endings

as if there was nothing we couldn't fix

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S