ok well i'm going to talk a little bit about tiffany briscoe she wants to live in a world of music singing performing writing along with a force field around her guitars and piano that repels bella her cat and  her sticky fingered brother right you know what that's like so at twelve years old she taught herself to play guitar and now she's a fifteen year old high school student she's a regular performer at numerous coffee houses and has sung the national anthem for the next song that i'm missing called fifteen by taylor swift and i thought i should sing the song before i'm not fifteen anymore and since i'm almost done high school becoming a junior which is really crazy so so for my last song i'm going to sing a song called daydream by tori kelley i actually met her and i saw the song live and it was completely amazing so so  tiffany briscoe that's the right order chelsie carlson is also here tonight so hang on there and we have a poetry moment that we're so happy for a moment let's use this microphone over here because i don't know if you know we're here so it's just shelley you have friends yes very dear friend and local lady who has since left us for massachusetts and rave reviews the same old as shields who by some by chance thank heavens was here and we have been begging her to come here for so long but could never align the stars and by golly the stars have aligned die and she is here with both her books and much poetry three books oh last time you were here you had a book now you have three this is amazing so that was a long long long long time ago many moons many moons and because shelley was kind enough to arrange this tonight i promised her one of my favorite pieces or her favorite pieces  anyone here a star trek fan ok once upon a time i was watching while i was doing other stuff and there was this interesting scene where worf walked into a bar and there were kling on winches and klingon w or scary and one when she looked at the other wench and she said i bet he would believe well and i thought about that and i said that's a hell of a way to put it and it inspired a poem called cl on love not my usual flavor or speed i am more get into shades of shy when it comes to man and woman and awareness of the two but when the moon is just so and the stars are right i want to be a cling on i mean it daggers strapped across my breast a sweater that spells danger and any male who looks my way better mean business better be brave because the dual is just foreplay and you know that whatever follows will invite you will involve biting and screaming and if you think you have worms now just wait to see what you get when i'm more into clean when act of love an act of war or words for the same thing you better want me to bed because honey that kiss will cost you no time for a sissy girls like xena no i am woman i am scary i am cling on better not retreat once you start because the weak are hunted down and eat i actually had to use that when i read to the younger crowd because a lot of times they would see me in assume i was their mom no not your mother ok when i moved to massachusetts i lived on the north shore for the first two years in a lovely will tell called ipswich and it was an absolutely fantastic place to live no employment so i ended up god help me on cape cod and there i released two more books which are chaps and i will be participating in the cape cod writers festival and i believe the second through the fourth and i still have no memory anyway i came across an absolutely wonderful word in japanese which is consumed and it's if you have an incredibly fine piece of porcelain you use gold to restore it if it gets broken and i thought that was a very cool consumed finding or making treasure at of broken pieces is the most poetic of art and nothing shy of a miracle when applied to a life the crash of breakage usually met with the broom then something useful consigned as rubbish because you can't ever make it whole but sometimes you can better it keep the pieces you find careful not to cut yourself to ribbons and use not glue gold to piece together what was except that it will never look the same never feel exactly as it did and you are halfway to accepting that no one gets through a life unbroken but time gives us the option to mend to heal in ways we never thought we could one day you find yourself marveling that in one place you were the porcelain in another the gold but suddenly you are intact again healed healer or healing i actually got to hear the first performance i did and i realized that i clocked like a chicken at the end of every sentence it was really scary because i didn't think i ever did chicken poetry but you know and but then you for sending me that that was actually kind of awesome i have zero they have something in the north shore called poetry in improbable places barbershop repair shops and one year they decided to have it at a totally horrible location that was a chocolate shop and all the poetry submitted had to have two things in it the word love and chocolate intrigued me so i came up with something called guilty love and i ended up being one of their featured poets for the chocolate tour they tell me i should move on find a lover that will not hurt me offer helpful advice as if it would make me want to less they said i would should want other things but they never knew the delicious way you melt on my tongue chocolate understands chocolate does not judge i flirted with kero i dabbled with the dark i even did a world with white but milk my dear only you fill my need quiet my craving warm me in so many ways and you know what that means i should be tempted by others and yes i know i can live without you or creamy dreamy taste but i am past fifty now in love and i have nothing but time to waste ah now i am sure as i say as you guys sit out there you guys probably have books that are loaded onto your phones that you read and i am weird i'm a throwback i like books and i came up with this one it's called bibliophile and unfortunately it's a little saucy because that's what i am newfound offer a sanitary reading options for the discreet discerning hipster no pulp the pages that could have been rudely fingered in the racks in the bookstore no binding sacred aroma i find in pages that have lived beyond an author's life give me old school freaking papaya wrists and screw the data banks of the easily carried offering no tactile thrill to the creature  senses who want plain coffee and honest mugs steaming next to books with pages i want paper and ink i want something i need only light to devour and when the book is one of mine i want need i want you to hold me in your hands finger every page and no real regret at the finish because we touched each other without that careful condom of electronic propriety bareback like love should be time for one more excellent thank you i've not all of my stuff is saucy i swear so there's a book so there's a poem in here called the f word honest it has nothing to do with that i had a very dear friend who helped his wife through louise body dementia which is possibly one of the most horrible diseases that's out there he took care of her by himself for two years and as anyone who's probably gone through the role of caregiver would know it's grueling it's hard it's difficult and i ended up writing a piece for him that i called the good husband and i sent it to him after his wife passed because i didn't really think he would like it like to read it while he was going through it an good husband belt and suspenders sort of guy a plan for every contingency and the golden years were supposed to be peaceful and calm because it was all planned he'd made peace with the may bes put to bed the what ifs he was ready for some solitude when life delivered the curveball no one could have seen suddenly trips to the supermarket were living large could he spare thirty minutes for the everyday life of the caregiver leaving no room for coffee and idle chat just back to the house before all hell could break loose he cared for her twenty four seven witness to the backward moves and finally the complete  or of everything she was and he did it with care and kindness you don't ask why because you know him well he's just doing what he must screw the cancer trying to kill him damn the hundred issues of the day will make the perfect penance with the loving heart not because it's expected because but because it's who he is he can give farewell to what was regret what couldn't be but there is no good by you can for your three books three books a fourth book is coming out there called the brand point chronicles making a brave and the infinite chaum of fire  yeah i always fun i've been wanting to come back so bad ever since so i'm really happy to finally be back how are you all  well i'm going to play you the newest song that i've written the song is called barely breathing and the title came to me in a completely different topic for the song but when i went to write it this came out and it was just one of those situations where i just had to let the song lead me and and i like where brought me so so as i said i was here in two thousand and thirteen and at that point i was still pretty early on and see me doing the whole solo thing and since then i've got to do a lot of really cool things and i think the coolest of those things i released my first it's called the broken road i do have some copies with me but this song the song is on there and it's kind of about finding your place this is actually my latest thing it's called belong world that could bring me to my so i usually play on a keyboard so this is real fun i get to play on a real piano this next song is a cover song it's one it's probably my latest favorite song by cerebral us but it's actually this next song is called spiders and i wrote this song not really intending to write a song i actually just wanted to play piano but when i sat down there was a spider in one corner looking at me and a spider in the other corner looking at me and so my first instinct was wrong they're going to kill me and then i thought no that's silly i should just write a song called spiders and so i did but it's not literally about spiders although that story is true you know the reason that i think were afraid of spiders is they always seem to be everywhere they're always lurking around dark corners and you know if they bite you they can do a lot of damage but at the end of the day you're always bigger and you can brush them off and sometimes sometimes people are that w my last song song is by one of my favorite bands and i actually have this on my album so if you like my rendition it is on there it's a little bit different i just wanna say thank you so much for for having me i carlson like i said i do have c d s if you are interested thank you very much drive folk inflected songs from aggressive fight anthems to one colleague dream sequences and their sounds of yesteryear reverberate with echoes of the gypsy caravan the carnival and the high seas with their own vocative lyrics telling engaging stories replete with humor social consciousness and satire so what a wonderful wonderful blend i love this oh right we're going to speed things up a little bit and this next song we're going to do is called an industry quarter and a little background on this song where rob and i are from philadelphia and we're kind of surrounded by constant no we and buildings and all of our life is blocked by other believes and we want to go into nature for one night and after not having been in nature for a while and we kind of realize like what are we doing so we just kind of wrote this song about wishing that there was more life in this city and we hope you enjoy it much this next one we're going to do is called tick tock and this is actually one of the first times i think we've ever played it live oh find the cape  technical difficulties sorry i believe we have one more song for you guys and it is actually a new a song we've written recently and it is called reflections right you warm donors like i can a song i have a song going through the book right you're welcome to join us you know what's come out on stage and just pretend you're singing that's what they told me to do you know you're a you know what touring artist so just having you on stage and actually jim if you want to pull