will well i will be very glad to introduce our very own stage manager mr can't  even the you anymore so what's missing is that people with asperger's and it's all over the place in here but i never said it directly when we infancy all of us we started noticing the words our own name comes to us very quickly and there are a few other words that even in infancy we start to recognize very quickly probably usually having to do with you know being changed or getting a bottle or whatever we're fed whichever way that may be but we also start picking up on these non verbal social cues except people anywhere on the autism spectrum don't pick up on these non verbal social cues and  what we're talking about is the body language the facial expression and the tone of voice and babies are more quickly soothed by tone of voice they pick up on that faster and they carry that through their lives and then at some point they start picking up on facial expressions of people sticking their faces in their face and making these faces they start to begin to recognize some of their own as time goes by they recognize more as children and also more children and as babies you start to develop a sense of but body language means and it isn't always conscious there may be some people for whom it's very conscious maybe people who study it and who you know are going out of their way to convey it in particular way but people read all the time and when you just go by words like like i do i mean when i just go by the meaning of somebody's speech and i try to convey exactly what i mean with my speech people very often are talking past each other or not understanding each other i'm being misread because my body language and my facial expression and my tone of voice have i have no idea what they are and people are incorporating that into what i'm saying  just as much as they're frustrated that i'm not getting their whole meaning because are not seen and so this is anyone on the autism spectrum have that what makes somebody with asperger's uniquely different from even them the most high functioning person with autism disorder or with people with other spectrum disorders is that with asperger's you have people who look in the eye they have a sense of humor as it says in here often quirky or offbeat we have a sense of humor instead of none and then  i'm going to introduce my friend right here this is steep around stephen i've been playing together for a long time and we've not quite gone through all of our marriages but you know we've got to at least one of them anyway we used to play around a lot in mamma county and various other things and steve is a journeyman drummer he's if you go anywhere for you much in mom with the notion counties he's playing somewhere behind a kid or she wants you to be the her friend no one's asking for perfection you just do the best you can and night jesus is all gone to boulder will just stumble down this track in when i get to my mailbox you can run all the way back running to the dawn j the mountains of upstate new york i want you to know at princeton high school and for over this past summer and then has spent time with the philadelphia jazz orchestra accompanying them on a couple of vocal charts at christmas in philadelphia she's also a member of two girls  the princeton high school freshman women's choir as well as the princeton girls choir concert choir and this summer emma will be attending a two week intensive pro program at vanderbilt university  i'm just going to get started with the music on not introducing myself but i am fifteen as you said and i go to princeton high school i am mediocre at the guitar but i do my best not quite as good as do you think you are runn nicholas is a traditional bluegrass traditionalist born in central new jersey and he says that hank williams jr mark on country music and song writing after hearing your heart at eighteen mark bought his first soul god family and music and keep it in that order and you'll be ok mark skirt up and down the east coast and he's been recognized by several local papers and radio hosts and he's got his own website mark miklos dot com so mark thank you so much i appreciate that i got to do this one here no time favorite of mine back nine hundred sixty two george jones was looking for number one the song he found it in this one here how good we always like merle haggard i like the stories with some of the songs to this particular song happened way back when when merle started out he he borrowed the neighbor's car without the neighbor known he ended up in san quentin for grand theft auto and when the jail cell locked behind him he knew it was real and he got on his knees he prayed and said my god what have i done can i turn my life around well it just so happened johnny cash was coming to sing for the prisoners and it changed his life he got to meet johnny cash johnny cash told him write a song about your life always said dolly got two big reasons why she's well known i said dad what's said he said well she's a great songwriter and she's got a real pretty voice i said well that's good reasons i guess it must be true because she's in the country music hall of fame and the songwriters hall of fame this is one of her first number one song i know i don't sound like dolly and was worth more than gone never knew how much you loved me i thought you would be it's go meet him up at the cabin up there in the northeast corner of pennsylvania take dad to all our local lakes up that way and well we stopped for bait and tackle that's why this song means a lot to me when i heard this lawyer a factory worker a corporate executive a truck driver and a soldier speaking of the service there his unusual experiences revealed in reflected in his subjects about which he writes his poems and his poems have striking imagery as well this work has been published in stillwater review the river poets journal and us one poets so please welcome come on down here we've got lou malki thank you hauser well like you said i've had a unconventional life for a poet which maybe explains the unconventional subject matter as in this first poem it's from a long time ago it's called ec company they took everything even my hair and gave me strange new brothers we lay with i'm sixteen's like lovers asleep inside the death machine just another piece of meat wrapped in green stuffed in a trash bag of luck runs out my father thinks his son's a hero i do not correct him i do not say i'm only gazing  after law school i first job with the public defender's office in philadelphia when the p d you gotta work night court sometimes you get out just the sun comes up and saw sided city i'd never seen before so this a thin race five a m the morning sun cause like a crab across the sky smearing greasy light on warehouse windows where why no badgers guard their doorway iron birds with ancient i look down as hookers sweet soldiers of the street stagger home balanced on the jagged edge of morning ad i know i'm prejudiced but i will always think that the late sixty's early seventy's is one of the greatest times in history to be alive and mostly because it was just this that was a sense of optimism a sense that anything was possible and i had one friend who embodied that more than any of the rest of us he was just one of these guys that would embrace whatever life threw adam without worrying about how it was going to turn out this is called keeping the faith with the ocean in your voice you called me diving tea together for the shiny coins the master scattered does the wind still know your name and the shortest job i ever had lasted three days i was a log or maybe that's the reason it produced the shortest poem i've ever written it's called woodcutters chainsaw  scoff and snarl and spit out frozen bark just not faced men with cinder voices whip their sledges with angry not goals and flash their smiling axes in the sun joyful and this last poem hopefully will need no explanation it's called a career e eighty one degrees north rain whispered on the roof the day we rode the morning like a  unfolded the night skies into bed sheets for our love bodies colliding like snowflakes